How it works
Describe what you’re building, pick a style and, if you like, a few words you want the name to echo. An open model (Meta Llama 3.3 70B on Cloudflare Workers AI) suggests names with a line on why each fits. We filter out anything that’s too long, has odd characters or reads like a phrase, and turn each name into the .com it would use.
Then, if you ask, we check those .com names against the registry itself. We send one request per name to Verisign’s public RDAP service, the official lookup for .com registrations: a record means the domain is registered, no record means it isn’t right now. We check up to 12 names at a time and store nothing. We don’t check other TLDs, social handles or trademarks.
What makes a name work
- The radio test. Say it to someone once. Can they type it into a browser without asking how it’s spelled? Dropped vowels and swapped letters fail this.
- Short and distinct. One or two words, easy to say. Distinct from competitors so people don’t confuse you in search.
- Room to grow. A descriptive name helps early SEO and clarity, but it can box you in if the product changes. An invented name is easier to trademark and own in search, but needs a clear tagline next to it.
- Searchable. Search the name. If page one is full of a big brand or a common word, it will take longer to rank for your own name.
After you pick one
Register the domain, then do a trademark search where you’ll sell. Write a one-line tagline with the AI tagline generator, make a favicon, and check an existing domain’s history with the domain age checker if you’re buying one second-hand. Not sure the idea is ready for a name? Run it through the idea validator first.