{"what_this_is":"A first-hand record of one company submitting its own MCP server to every directory it could reach. Every row is an attempt we made ourselves; every outcome was re-checked by loading the site on the date in `checked`. Nothing here is a roundup of other people's lists.","checked":"2026-09-28","first_submitted":"2026-08-26","places_tried":19,"submissions_sent":5,"listings_live":2,"still_waiting":3,"blocked_before_submitting":14,"gates":{"open_form":5,"account_required":9,"github_required":1,"payment_required":2,"bot_check":1,"closed":1},"what_worked":[{"name":"Official MCP Registry","listing":"https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=bidswarm","days_from_submission_to_live":0,"how":"Prove you control the domain by serving one file at /.well-known/mcp-registry-auth, then publish a server.json."},{"name":"mcpservers.org","listing":"https://mcpservers.org/servers/bidswarm-nanocorp-app-mcp","days_from_submission_to_live":3,"how":"A plain form. 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