Domain name finder

A domain name finder should show its combinations

A useful name search is not a black box that returns ten unexplained ideas. It starts with the words you already care about and makes the combination rule visible. Put product words in one position, category words in the next, and add a third position when the name needs a modifier. Every item in position one is combined with every item in position two and so on, so you can reproduce the list in a spreadsheet and understand why a candidate appeared.

Prefixes and suffixes are separate because they answer different naming problems. A prefix such as get or go can turn an unavailable noun into an active brand. A suffix such as app, hq or now can clarify what a short coined word does. Keep the “without” option selected when you want both the plain name and the modified forms. The hyphen option adds a second spelling; it never silently replaces the joined form.

Domain availability comes from RDAP, not a guessed HTTP response

RDAP is the web protocol that domain registries use to publish registration records. This page first downloads IANA's DNS bootstrap directory, finds the registry endpoint assigned to each selected top-level domain, and only then asks that endpoint for the complete domain. A returned record means registered. A not-found response from that mapped registry means the name appears available at that moment.

The order matters. A generic service can also return “not found” because it does not support a domain ending at all. Treating every such response as an available name would create the most damaging possible result: a confident green label for something the tool never checked. When IANA provides no usable HTTPS RDAP service, this page says that it cannot check the ending and offers a registrar search instead. Unsupported is evidence about the method, not evidence about the name.

Why the result says “appears available”

Availability can change between the registry lookup and checkout. Some endings also have eligibility rules, reserved labels or premium prices that are not represented by the simple presence of a domain record. The registrar is therefore the final authority for purchase, price and registration terms. A green result here narrows a list; it does not reserve a name or create a right to it.

The registrar button keeps that boundary explicit. For an apparently available result it asks the registrar to confirm price and registration. For an unsupported ending it asks for the missing availability check. For a registered name it searches other extensions, because the same label may still be useful elsewhere. The first release uses ordinary links and earns no commission. If affiliate tracking is introduced, the disclosure beside the links will say so and the product's availability language will not change.

Use word combinations without producing a word soup

The cartesian product grows quickly. Three positions with ten words each already make one thousand labels before prefixes, suffixes, hyphens and domain endings are counted. The live count beside the editor is there so the size is visible before any registry receives a request. Start broad to inspect the language, then remove weak words before checking a large matrix. Registry rate limits belong to the registries and may produce retryable errors when a list is too aggressive.

Shorter is not automatically better. Read each candidate aloud, check whether adjacent words create an unintended phrase, and look at the name without capitalization. The invisible character detector can expose copied look-alike letters before a naming list is trusted, while the slug generator handles a different job: converting one title into a path rather than combining brand words.

Your lists stay here; registry questions do not

The position lists, combination logic, sorting and CSV export run in this tab. CreatorValet does not receive them. An availability check is necessarily different: the registry must see the finished domain name in order to answer whether a record exists. Those requests go from your browser to IANA's published registry endpoints, four at a time, and can be stopped. No account is created and no result history is stored by this site.

Export the checked list when it needs to become a naming shortlist or a review document. The CSV keeps the exact status and explanation shown on screen, including unsupported and failed checks; it does not turn uncertainty into an empty cell. If a list contains existing web addresses rather than ideas, the URL extractor is the matching tool: it finds and normalizes those addresses instead of querying their registration state.