About

I built this because every other domain search tool annoyed me

I am Alex Denne. I moderate r/legaltech. I have built a few small companies. I have failed to name several of them on the first try.

This site exists because I needed a domain for a side project last year. The side project was a webcam streaming tool. I wanted something short with "cast" in it. I went to the existing free domain search tools. They all annoyed me in different ways.

The first one I tried showed me .com results mixed with .blog, .online, .xyz, .site, and a dozen other extensions I did not ask about. There was no way to filter to .com only. I just wanted .com only.

The second one let me filter to .com but pushed me toward registering whatever I typed at a registrar I had not chosen. It was hard to tell whether the results were even available, because the tool kept suggesting alternatives.

The third one was the worst. I searched for two specific domains I was considering. Three days later, both of them were listed for sale on a domain marketplace at a markup of several hundred percent. I did not register them. Someone else did, almost immediately after I searched. The pattern is called front-running. The tool I used appears to have done it to me.

I made this site because I could not find a free tool that did three things at the same time. Show me .com results only. Not push me toward upsells or specific registrars. Not front-run my searches.

Those three things sound trivial. They are not trivial. None of the existing free tools do all three. Most do none of them.

What this site does

You type a keyword. We mesh it with thousands of prefix and suffix patterns mined from the actual .com zone file. We check every candidate against a local copy of the full Verisign .com registry, which contains every registered .com domain in the world. We return only the ones that are genuinely available right now. We score each one on basic naming quality — length, phonetic energy, compound vs invented, processing fluency.

We do not store your searches. We do not register domains. We do not have a partnership with any registrar that would make us recommend one over another. If you click a result, we link you to Namecheap with a referral code, which earns this site a small commission if you register. That referral is the only revenue mechanism. It exists so I can keep running the site for free.

The deeper bet

I think the existing domain search category is broken because the incentives are wrong. The tools are mostly built by registrars or by people who sell domains. Those tools push you to register things, which is fine, except they push you to register things they want you to register, which is rarely the thing you actually want.

I have no domain inventory. I am not a registrar. I have no relationship with any aftermarket. I have no incentive to push you toward anything. The only thing I want is for you to find a name you love so much you tell a friend.

If you find a domain on this site you like, register it wherever you want. Namecheap, Porkbun, Cloudflare, Dynadot, your favourite. I do not care. I just want you to register it before someone else does.

What I do otherwise

I run the r/legaltech subreddit. I write at alexdenne.com. I am on LinkedIn if you want to find me professionally. If you have a question about the site, about a domain, or about naming, you can email me at hello at this site's domain.

Thanks for using this. It is genuinely free and there is no catch.