Domain name generator

What this tool does

Combines your keywords with common prefixes, suffixes and alternative endings, then checks every suggestion live rather than showing you a list and letting you find out later which ones are gone.

That live check is the difference between a generator and a thesaurus. Most name tools produce clever combinations and leave availability to you, which means the good ones were taken years ago and you spend the afternoon discovering it one name at a time.

How the suggestions are ordered

Results come back in a fixed order and a fixed set: your keyword against .com, .io, .co, .app, .dev and .domains, then four shaped variants — get and try in front, hq and labs behind — each checked as .com. Nothing here reads your keyword and decides which ending suits it. .com is first because it is what people type when they half-remember a name, not because it is the right answer for your project.

Both prices are shown on every suggestion — the first year and the renewal — because a cheap first year is the oldest trick in this industry and it only works when the second year is hidden. Take our own card: a .xyz at $3.99 renewing at $17.99 against a .com flat at $13.99. The cheap ending wins for three years — $39.97 against $41.97 — and loses from the fourth, and it keeps losing by more every year after. Whether that matters depends entirely on how long you intend to hold the name, which is the calculation the pricing is designed to stop you making, and the reason both figures are on every row here.

When .com is not the answer

The honest position is that .com is still the default in most people's heads, and that this matters less every year. What it buys you is that someone half-remembering your name will type .com first. What it costs is that almost every short, ordinary .com was registered two decades ago, so holding out for one usually means accepting a worse name to get a better ending.

.org reads as an institution rather than a product, and it is worth having if that is what you are. .net has largely lost its original meaning and now reads mostly as the .com that was taken, which is not nothing but is not much.

The newer endings trade recognition for availability, and some of them read as deliberate rather than second-best. A development tool on .dev, an application on .app, a short brandable on .io or .co — none of those look like compromises to the audience they are aimed at. .xyz is the cheapest way to hold a name while you decide.

Two practical cautions. .app and .dev are on the HSTS preload list, which means browsers will refuse plain HTTP entirely — you need working HTTPS from day one, not eventually. And .io, .ai and .co are country-code endings whose registries set their own rules, so the familiar ICANN protections and timetables do not automatically apply.

What makes a suggestion worth taking

The test that matters is whether you can say it to someone in a noisy room and have them type it correctly. That rules out most clever spellings, most hyphens, and almost every name that depends on the reader knowing which homophone you meant. The other tests a name should pass are worth reading before you commit, because a domain is cheap and changing one after launch is not.

Length matters less than people think and pronounceability matters more. A long name made of ordinary words survives being read aloud; a short one made of dropped vowels does not.

And check the name against existing trademarks before you buy, not after. We do not check for you, and a registration that collides with someone's mark can be challenged and taken away through a dispute procedure where we are not a party and cannot help. That is set out in our terms, and it is the one risk in this process that costs more than the domain.

Common problems

Availability moves in real time, and a name that is free while you look can be gone by checkout. We re-check immediately before registering and never charge for a name that is no longer there — if it goes in that window, the line is refunded rather than registered.

Some names come back available but are priced by the registry as premium, which can mean hundreds or thousands of dollars rather than the figure on our card. Checkout refuses those rather than quietly charging the higher price or taking your money for a registration that would fail.

If nothing good comes back, the keyword is usually too generic rather than the generator being poor. One distinctive word beats two common ones, and widening the endings beats mangling the spelling. The bulk checker is the better tool once you have a shortlist of your own.