@yoavush@guy actually "whois" is just a link to google. May be it should point to http://who.is. Or even better whois data can be loaded using API and shown straight in the Nomino page.
@sevazhidkov@yoavush I meant to have the actual checking so that you know that the name it's showing is available. Kind of like how Panabee.com does it
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@guy you're better off manually going to the domain URL first than doing a whois lookup, unless you're ready to buy the domain on the spot. Companies that park domains for the purpose of selling them buy up huge lists from GoDaddy, whois services, and others to know what domains people are searching for.
Has anyone ever named their startup or product from these name generators? I'd love to hear some unicorn on startup grind say "well the name actually came from namewhale and we ran with it."
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@1greigcranfield totally. I find these sorts of name generators pretty lame. What sort of criteria are they using to generate names? Here are three I got just now, the connotations with each name are pretty bad: kyke, nuga, lossa
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What about if any of these are already trademarked? There's a chance of that also happening and that needs to be validated
@workstationw that brings up an interesting question: is there a public API for trademark lookups?
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Good Business Name Generator, yes showing domain availability would be a great feature. I can help you to build that. I have recently release similar tool http://hack.im to generate domain hacks.
Great idea. comes up with some interesting suggestions. Also, it com come up with some really long ones: http://carrapide.com/nomino/?cou...
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How about not only generating names with a .com domain available, but also checking it against the USPTO's trademark database? maybe other countries' databases too! :D
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Was looking for something like this! - I used pronouncey but domains were outdate (2013/2014) . Maybe partnering up with @websla would be good?
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