Domain name finder
Check whether the name you want is free — across .com, .co, .shop and the rest — before you print it on anything.
- What leaves this page
- There is no way to find out whether a name is taken without asking, so the name you type is sent to the public registry that knows. We do not keep it, and nobody is told you were interested.
- No account, ever
- No sign-up, no email address, no trial that turns into a bill.
- Yours to use
- Nothing watermarked, nothing limited to a preview.
The name
Just the name — leave off the .com.
Available is not the same as free to use. This asks the registry whether the name is registered. It cannot tell you whether somebody holds a trademark on it in your trade — and that search is free, takes ten minutes on your national trademark register, and is the one people wish they had done.
Choosing well
Say it down a phone. If you have to spell it, or explain that there is a hyphen, it will cost you customers every week for years. That single test rules out most of the clever options.
The ending matters less than it used to. .com still gets typed from habit, but a local ending or a trade one — .shop, .studio, .cafe — reads perfectly naturally now and is far more likely to be free.
Adding your town or trade usually improves it. “kellerplumbing” beats “keller”, reads better, and helps you turn up when somebody searches locally.
Check before you commit
The expensive order of operations is naming the business, printing the signage, and then finding the domain has been parked since 2004. A name is cheap to change on a Tuesday afternoon and very expensive to change once it is on a van.
Type a name on the left and this asks each registry directly — twelve endings, live, no cached list.
What this is, if you have never had to think about it
Most people arrive here having been told they need one of these, without being told what it is. Nothing below assumes you already know.
Check before you commit, not after
The expensive order of operations is naming the business, printing the signage, and then discovering the domain has been parked since 2004. Names are cheap to change on a Tuesday afternoon and very expensive to change once they are on a van. Check first — it takes seconds and it occasionally saves a rebrand.
Which ending to buy
.com still carries the most weight, largely because people type it out of habit when they half-remember a name. But local endings do very well for local businesses, and the trade-specific ones — .shop, .studio, .cafe — are widely available and read perfectly naturally now. What matters far more than the ending is that the name is easy to say down a phone without spelling it.
Available is not the same as free to use
A domain being unregistered says nothing about whether somebody holds a trademark on that name in your industry. The check here is a registry lookup, not a legal one. Before you build a brand on a name, search your national trademark register too — it is free, it takes ten minutes, and it is the search people wish they had done.
Questions people ask
A name you own, pointing at something.
Buy it wherever you like, then point it at My Site. The certificate, the padlock and the renewals are handled — a real site on your own address, rather than a name parked at a registrar with nothing behind it.
