What this site is
Free tools for people who work with .com domain names, in three groups: find a name (ideas, short domains, domain hacks, handles, Web3 domains, a brand studio), judge a name (rater, appraiser, screener, availability, costs, a Domain audit) and watch and protect (lookalikes, domain health, a drop calendar, deleted domains, naming patterns, hosting stats). The tools are free and need no account. What they cannot tell you has its own page, Limits. You can watch a single name for free and get an email when it becomes available. Pro is an optional paid plan that sends you a daily alert when names matching your own keywords appear in, or leave, the zone, and lets you watch up to 50 names.
Why this exists
Getting the right .com has never been easy. But the rest of the job has become so much easier that the domain is now the hard part. With AI, turning an idea into a working product takes days instead of months. Then you need a name for it, and finding a good, free .com can take longer than building the thing.
More than 160 million .com names are registered, and in my experience a great many of them are not websites at all: they were bought in bulk, parked, never used, and are held for resale at prices far beyond what someone launching a new idea can pay. Every short, pronounceable, memorable name seems to be taken, and the ones that are free are the ones nobody wants. It is discouraging, and it makes people settle for a worse name, a different extension, or give up on the idea.
I kept hitting that wall myself, which is why this site exists and why the tools are free. They look at a snapshot of every registered .com (the daily numbers are on the State of .com page), so you can see in seconds what is really free, what is about to drop and which names deserve a closer look, and then check the best ones against the registry. Watch a name you are waiting for and we email you when it frees up; Pro, if you want it, does the watching for you. New posts and updates can also come by email: subscribe to the newsletter in the footer, and unsubscribe from any email.
About the author
I am Krasen Slavov, a WordPress developer with more than 20 years of experience, one of the vetted experts at Codeable, and the author of free plugins and themes used on thousands of websites. I built NameDaemon because I needed it, and made it free so that others do not have to hit the same wall. You can read more about me and my other work at krasenslavov.com.
Where the data comes from
The list of registered .com names is the registry’s zone file, which ICANN makes available to approved users. It is a snapshot, not a live feed, and each result says which day it is from. We use it to answer questions and do not republish it: Pro sends each subscriber only the few names that match their own keywords, and there is no download or bulk export of the list. Whether a name is registered right now, and when it expires, comes from the public registry lookup (RDAP), which the tools query live for the names that matter. Some tools also ask other public services about the name you typed: DNS, the Internet Archive, public blockchain nodes and the developer and social platforms listed below.
Attribution
These tools stand on other people’s work. Thank you to:
- LDNOOBW, the List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words, licensed CC BY 4.0. We use the lists for 20 languages whose terms can be written in Latin letters, match them against names, and mask the terms in our output. The lists are otherwise unchanged.
- Carnegie Mellon University, the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, for counting syllables and finding rhymes.
- Word lists:
words_alphafrom the dwyl/english-words project, and the google-10000-english list, which is based on Google’s Trillion Word Corpus. - ICANN and Verisign for the .com zone file (through ICANN’s Centralized Zone Data Service) and the registry’s RDAP service; IANA for the list of extensions and their RDAP servers.
- The Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine, for the history in the Domain audit. Every archived page we mention is linked so you can read it yourself.
- Porkbun for the public price list behind the domain cost calculator.
- Public services we ask about a name: GitHub, npm, PyPI, crates.io, RubyGems, Docker Hub, Bluesky, Mastodon, public Ethereum and Solana nodes, and the Spamhaus, SURBL and URIBL domain blocklists.
- Phosphor Icons, from phosphoricons.com, licensed MIT, for the icons the brand studio puts in its logos.
- Fonts: Bricolage Grotesque, Inter and Space Mono, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, served from this site. Logos made by the brand studio use outlines of the same fonts.
- WordPress, which this site and its theme run on.
Affiliate links
Where a name looks available, a tool may show “Register at …” links to domain registrars, and where a name is in its last days before it drops, “Backorder at …” links to a backorder service. Some of these can be affiliate links: if you buy through one, the site may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Such links are marked as sponsored, open in a new tab, and come with a note beside them. They never change which names we show, how we score them or whether we call a name available.
At the moment this site carries no affiliate links.
More about the site
Read what the tools can and cannot tell you, how we handle your data, and the terms of use and refund policy. Questions, a bug, a result that looks wrong, or just a hello: use the contact page.