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How to find available .com domains in game wikis and patch notes

Updated · Edited and reviewed by the NameHawk editor before publishing. How we make these guides

Every game update adds mechanics, items and places, and players invent slang to talk about them. Game wikis document all of it in detail, version by version.

Most of it stays in one game, but the mechanics and genre vocabulary spreads across games and sometimes into everyday speech.

Where to look

Why this works

Games are language laboratories under pressure: a studio ships a mechanic, and within days players need a word for it. Wikis capture both halves, the official name and the community's, and patch-note pages collect years of them in one place.

Mechanics words travel between games, which is what makes them worth a domain. Item and creature names usually stay put, and belong to the studio anyway.

Step by step

  1. 1

    Find the wiki page for a game's newest version or update: it lists everything added at once.

  2. 2

    Scan it with NameHawk.

  3. 3

    Separate game-specific names (creatures, items, places) from general mechanics and genre words.

  4. 4

    Keep the general ones ('knockback', 'debuff', 'craftable').

  5. 5

    Check the .coms and search trademarks.

What NameHawk found

A selection of the words NameHawk flagged as new on these pages when they were scanned on September 19, 2026. They are candidate words, not names confirmed available: that scan didn't check their .coms, and some are already registered. Scan the page yourself to see what's there today and which .coms are available now.

the Minecraft Wiki's Java Edition 1.21 page

  • knockback
  • chestplate
  • namespaced
  • pottery sherd
  • waterlogging
  • stack size

the Stardew Valley Wiki's version history

  • debuff
  • craftable
  • placeable
  • harvestable
  • interactable
  • desync

the Terraria Wiki's 1.4.4 update page

  • hitbox
  • autofire
  • autoswing
  • resprited
  • reforge

What makes a good find here

  • Mechanics words that appear across several games ('knockback', 'debuff', 'hitbox').
  • Adjectives gamers use for items and features ('craftable', 'placeable').
  • Genre and play-style terms.

What to watch out for

  • Creature, item and place names are usually the studio's trademarks.
  • Wiki pages include template text and code; skip anything that isn't a word.
  • Some words are only meaningful to one game's players.

Check trademarks before you register

  • Search the exact word in USPTO Trademark Search for US marks, and in the WIPO Global Brand Database for international and other national registers.
  • A trademark holder can challenge a domain it sees as an abusive registration under ICANN's Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP), a fast administrative process run by approved providers. See ICANN's UDRP page.
  • NameHawk can't tell you whether a word is protected. It only demotes words written like names. Ask a trademark lawyer before you build on a name that matters to you.

Common questions

Which games are worth scanning?
Ones with long update histories and active wikis. A single version page from a game like that lists dozens of new terms at once.
Why do wiki scans include odd fragments?
Wikis are full of templates and table markup. Skip anything that isn't a word people would say out loud.

The other nine methods

Scan a page for new words