About NameHawk
NameHawk reads a web page, picks out the words and two-word phrases that are new to English, and checks whether the exact-match .com for each is available. It's built for domain investors and anyone naming something new.
How a scan works
NameHawk fetches the page you paste, reads its title, headings and text, and ranks single words and adjacent pairs by how central they are to the page and how new they are. “New” means absent or rare in a word list of the English web as it was in 2006, so words like agentic or microplastics rise and words whose .coms went decades ago drop out. Words written like names are flagged as possible trademarks. The home page walks through it.
Where availability comes from
NameHawk doesn't look up domains itself. It sends the candidate names, and nothing else, to Permutica, a domain availability service, through its partner API, and shows Permutica's answer. That's the “Powered by Permutica” credit at the foot of every page. Availability can change at any moment, so your registrar has the final word.
How NameHawk makes money
Scanning is free. The Register buttons are affiliate links: they go through CJ, an affiliate network, to Namecheap, Dynadot or GoDaddy, and if you register a domain there NameHawk may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. Which words NameHawk shows, and whether a .com is marked available, doesn't depend on any of that. The privacy policy says what the affiliate link passes along.
Editorial standards: how the guides are made
Every guide on NameHawk is edited, reviewed and approved by a person before it's published.
- Real scans. The words in each guide's “What NameHawk found” section come from running NameHawk's own code over the pages named there. The words shown are picked by hand from what that scan flagged, and an automated test fails if a guide shows a word the scan didn't flag.
- Candidates, not promises. Those example words weren't checked for availability when they were scanned, and some are registered. Scan the page yourself to see which .coms are available now.
- Sources linked. Each guide links the places it tells you to look, and the trademark searches and dispute policy it refers to.
- Dates that mean something. “Updated” under a guide's title is the last time a person reread and edited it, not the last time a script ran.
- Not legal advice. The guides point you to trademark searches; they can't tell you whether a word is protected.
Found something wrong? Email hello@namehawk.co and it will be corrected.
Contact
Questions, corrections or privacy requests: hello@namehawk.co.