Let Agents In

Agent readiness · porkbun.com

2026-08-12 10:22 UTC · formula v9.2 · 6.8s

A recaptcha challenge sits between an agent and an account it was ready to create.

https://porkbun.com/account/create?createNew=1&redir= loads recaptcha and turnstile. There is no version of that an agent solves.

8/ 15
A · Discovery
6/6
B · Agent entry
0/4
C · Registration
1/2
D · Provisioning
0/2
E · Integration
1/1

of the 15 points that apply to you and we could measure · 2 of 17 were not scored

You 8 · category median 5 · best name.com 10 · 15 deterministic HTTP checks, published formula

Pass it onEmail itLinkedIn

Fix this first

+5points, taking 8/15 to 13/15, past name.com

This is the whole list: everything we could measure and you do not pass. Another 2 points sit behind checks we could not evaluate on your domain, and each of those lines below says what would make it measurable.

  1. 1
    Agent entry pointan afternoon · +2

    Publish /agent-signup.md: the path from nothing to a working key, written as steps for a machine rather than a tour for a person. Ours is at /agent-signup.md if you want a worked example, and it says plainly that we have nothing to sign up for.

  2. 2
    Programmatic key provisioningan afternoon · +2

    Document how a key is created without opening a dashboard: management API, service account or CLI. If no such path exists, that gap is the finding, not the docs.

  3. 3
    No CAPTCHA in the signup HTMLan afternoon · +1

    Trigger recaptcha on a risk signal instead of on every signup, or open an API path to an account. A CAPTCHA is a hard stop, not a speed bump.

Then, when you have room

  • OAuth dynamic client registration a project · +1Publish OAuth authorization server metadata with an RFC 7591 registration_endpoint in it. It is the only standard way an agent registers itself without a human.
  • MCP surface a project · +1You already talk about MCP, and nothing answered at the addresses named above. If your server is at another path, declare it at /.well-known/mcp.json: that file is what an agent reads first, and it is what makes the path stop mattering.

Take it with you

5 of the checks an agent depends on, porkbun.com does not pass.

Send yourself the list above with the checks that cost the most, and a permanent link. Whoever owns the fix is usually not the person who ran the scan.

One email with the report, and one follow-up asking what you did with it. No newsletter, no sequence. Delete on request at hello@letagentsin.com.

None of this tells you whether an agent picked you

Everything above is a file an agent could read. Whether one actually chose you is a different measurement, and we have not run it on porkbun.com. What we have run it on is a rich text editor vendor: six agents, one brief, six isolated copies of a real codebase. All six picked the same competitor, and the vendor being studied was never named, not even on a rejection list, while the runs named and dismissed ten alternatives between them. In an earlier round, run before we isolated the copies, it was named twice and struck off both times in four words: Fully commercial, licence key required. That study is about them, not about you. It is here because it is the difference between a file and a decision.

Read the audits in fullWhat the same run on porkbun.com costs

Against domain registration and dns

You are 3 of 11 in a category where a developer is trying to register a domain and point it somewhere with nobody at the keyboard.

  1. 1
    name.com
    10/13
  2. 2
    inwx.com
    6/11
  3. 3
    porkbun.comyou
    8/15
  4. 4
    dnsimple.com
    8/16
  5. 5
    namecheap.com
    4/8
  6. 6
    dynadot.com
    6/13
  7. 7
    netim.com
    5/11
  8. 8
    gandi.net
    5/13
  9. 9
    njal.la
    5/13
  10. 10
    godaddy.com
    3/8
  11. 11
    hover.com
    3/11

Where competitors pass and porkbun.com does not

  • No CAPTCHA in the signup HTMLdnsimple.com · netim.com · njal.la
  • OAuth dynamic client registrationnamecheap.com · dynadot.com
  • MCP surfacenamecheap.com · dynadot.com
  • Programmatic key provisioningname.com

Only domains we have actually scanned appear here, so the ranking is a floor: a competitor missing from the list has not been measured, not beaten.

By stage

A
DiscoveryCan an agent find and read you?
6/6
B
Agent entryIs there a door built for a machine?
0/4
C
RegistrationCan an agent get an account?
1/2
D
ProvisioningCan it get credentials without a human?
0/2
E
IntegrationCan it ship working code?
1/1

Every check

Each line is one HTTP observation with a published rule, so you can rerun any of them yourself. Most are the same tomorrow if you are: the two that are not are the bot gate and the pricing page, which answer inconsistently on their own, which is why those run more than once and say so when the tries disagreed. PASS and PART are counted. UNMEASURED means we could not evaluate it, N/A means it does not apply to a product like yours, and neither is in the score or its denominator. See the formula

A · Discovery

  • PASS
    Answers an agent user-agentAnswered 200 to LetAgentsIn/1.0 (+https://letagentsin.com/methodology)
  • PASS
    llms.txt publishedllms.txt and llms-full.txt present at https://porkbun.com/llms.txt and https://porkbun.com/llms-full.txt, and the 6 links we sampled across both files all answer
  • PASS
    Docs readable without JavaScript5,894 characters of text without JS
  • PASS
    On-demand agents not blockedNo on-demand agent is blocked
  • PASS
    Paths robots.txt points at answerthe 2 concrete paths your robots.txt allows all answer
  • PASS
    No punishing crawl delayNo Crawl-delay applies to the agents we check

B · Agent entry

  • FAIL
    Agent entry pointNone of the 9 known agent entry paths returns a file rather than your page shellA markdown file written for a machine turns a guessing game into a procedure it can follow.
  • FAIL
    OAuth dynamic client registrationNo OAuth metadata on any of the 8 hosts probed, including the usual auth and api subdomainsRFC 7591 is the only standard path by which an agent can register itself without a human.
  • FAIL
    MCP surfaceMCP mentioned 23x in your own files, but nothing answered at mcp.porkbun.com, mcp.porkbun.com/mcp, mcp.porkbun.com/v1/mcp, api.porkbun.com/mcp, /mcp or /api/mcpAn MCP server turns your API from something an agent reads about into something it can call.

C · Registration

  • FAIL
    No CAPTCHA in the signup HTMLrecaptcha, turnstile appears in the signup page's server HTMLA CAPTCHA is a hard stop. Permissions after signup beat a gate before it.
  • PASS
    Signup reachable without a browserForm renders in server HTML at https://porkbun.com/account/create?createNew=1&redir=

D · Provisioning

  • FAIL
    Programmatic key provisioningNone of the 7 provisioning phrases appears in the 3 documents we readDocumented key creation is the difference between a two-minute integration and a support ticket.
  • UNMEASURED
    Free tier or no-card trial stated in textUnmeasurable: no pricing page could be fetchedLink a pricing page from your home page, or list one in llms.txt.

E · Integration

  • UNMEASURED
    Typed SDK on the registryUnmeasurable: we could not identify the package a developer installs to use you, from your site, your docs or a registry searchName your package once in your docs, or link it from your repository, and we stop guessing. If your product is not something a developer installs, this check does not apply to you: unmeasured is out of the score and out of the denominator, so it costs you nothing.
  • PASS
    Machine-readable API descriptionOpenAPI at https://porkbun.com/api/json/v3/spec, which your docs page declares with rel="describedby"

What we discovered on the way

Docs
https://porkbun.com/api/json/v3/documentation · linked from the site
Pricing
not found
Signup
https://porkbun.com/account/create?createNew=1&redir= · linked from the site
npm package
not found
GitHub
oborseth/Porkbun-MCP
Package licence
not found
Crawl-delay
none
Content-Signal
none
Blocked on-demand agents
none