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- 07 Fit checker
Three inputs tell you where your letter goes and when a reply is due.
Pick what the letter is about and the date you are writing. The checker shows the direction's status, counts three business days for a reply target, and for a personal data request it counts the 45 days Texas law allows plus the 45-day extension. Same logic we use at the desk.
The fit checker
Your letter
The live checker needs scripts turned on. Without them, use the table of routes below: find your topic, read its status and follow the link. Count three business days from the day you write for a reply target, skipping Saturday and Sunday.
Nothing you enter in the checker is sent anywhere. The calculation runs in your browser.
Naming is the one open direction. Write with the name you want assessed and we reply with a time for one call.
Go to naming & rare domainsReply targets are a working rule, not a guarantee. Legal deadlines follow the statute, not this page.
Every route the checker can give
The same table, written out. If scripts are off in your browser, this is the checker.
- Buying the domainNot availableThe domain is not for sale. No form, no counter-offer. The reasons are on the about page.
- Naming or a rare domain of your ownOpenReply target three business days. Read naming & rare domains, then write with kind set to naming.
- Writing or publishingIn studyLetters are read. We reply only if the letter changes what we are testing. See field notes.
- A software tool ideaIn studySame rule: read, reply if relevant, no timeline. See small tools.
- ResearchParkedLetters are kept on file. Do not expect a reply. Why it is parked.
- An Austin collaborationListeningReply target three business days. Read Austin partnerships first.
- PressListeningReply target three business days via contact. There is no launch to announce.
- Your personal data45 + 45 daysUse the data request page. Answer within 45 days, extendable once by 45 more with notice.
- Something elseListeningReply target three business days through contact.
How the dates are counted
Two clocks, counted differently on purpose
The reply target is ours. It counts three business days from the date you write, skipping Saturday and Sunday. Write on a Thursday and the target is the following Tuesday. Write on a Saturday and counting starts Monday, so the target is Wednesday. Public holidays are not skipped by the checker, which means the real date can slip by a day around the Fourth of July or Thanksgiving. We would rather show you a date that is occasionally one day optimistic than hide the arithmetic.
The data request clock is not ours. Under the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act a controller answers a consumer request within 45 days of receiving it. It can extend once by another 45 days when reasonably necessary, and it has to tell you about the extension inside the first 45. So the checker shows two dates: day 45, and day 90 as the outer limit. These are calendar days, weekends included.
The most common mistake we see is a personal-data question sent through the general form, mixed in with a naming inquiry. It still gets handled, but the 45-day clock is easier to prove when the request comes through its own form. Send it there.
When your deadline beats ours
Enter a deadline and the checker compares it with the reply target. If yours comes first, it says so in plain words. That is not a polite brush-off. A small office cannot promise to jump a queue, and you are better off with an answer from someone else in time than one from us too late.
Questions about the checker
Does the checker store what I pick?
No. It runs in your browser and nothing leaves the page until you follow a link and send a letter. The privacy policy covers what happens to a letter once it is sent.
Is the three-day reply target a promise?
It is a working rule, not a guarantee. Public holidays and a full week can push it. The terms say exactly what we do and do not guarantee.
Why does buying the domain give no form at all?
Because there is nothing to negotiate. xavriqon.com is held for a project that has not launched. Offers get a one-line reply saying so, and sending one through the form only adds a letter to that pile.
My topic is not in the list.
Choose "Something else". It routes to the contact form with the same three-business-day target as any open letter.