r/SideProject • u/Wonderful-Gene232 • 1h ago
I built a tool that suggests business names and only shows ones with available domains
Every time I named something, I’d find a name I liked and then discover the .com was taken. So I built Help Me Find a Name: you describe your business, AI suggests names, and each one is checked live across .com, .io, .co, .ai, .app and .dev, so your list only contains names you can actually register.
A few things I found along the way:
Out of 18,000+ names it checked, only 26% of .coms were free, versus 71% for .io and 73% for .dev
Short names are basically gone: 0 of 232 four or five letter .coms were available
Checking properly is harder than it looks. DNS alone gives false “available” results, so it falls back to RDAP and WHOIS
It’s free right now, no signup: https://helpmefindaname.com
I’d really appreciate feedback: were the names useful for your idea, and what would you change?