How to find available .com domains in job postings
Job postings describe work that's just starting to exist. Titles and descriptions use the newest vocabulary in a field, because that's what candidates search for.
When a new title appears across several companies at once, a profession, and a market around it, is forming.
Where to look
- Hacker News: Who is hiring
Monthly threads with hundreds of tech postings.
- Y Combinator jobs
Jobs at early-stage startups.
- Remote OK
Remote roles across fields.
Why this works
Job postings are where companies describe work that doesn't have a settled name yet, and they're written to be found: titles use the words candidates are searching for, which are the same words that make searchable domains.
The catch is the ratio. Hiring threads are mostly company and product names, so expect NameHawk to flag many names and expect to discard most of them.
Step by step
- 1
Scan big monthly hiring threads, which gather hundreds of postings on one page.
- 2
Ignore company and product names: NameHawk flags many as names.
- 3
Look at what the roles and the products are called.
- 4
Compare months: titles that keep spreading are the ones to act on.
- 5
Check the .coms of role and category words.
What NameHawk found
A selection of the words NameHawk flagged as new on these pages when they were scanned on 2026-09-19. Pages change, and so does availability: scan them yourself for what's there today.
What makes a good find here
- Adjectives that describe a new kind of product or work ('agentic').
- Category words that several companies use to describe themselves.
- New job titles, as two-word phrases.
What to watch out for
- Most unusual words in hiring threads are company and product names.
- Job boards change daily; results from one day may not repeat.
- Buzzwords come and go; look for terms that describe real work.
Common questions
- Why so many brand names in the results?
- Hiring posts are written by companies naming themselves and their products. NameHawk flags words that look like names; treat those as trademarks.
- What's the signal to watch for?
- The same role or category word appearing across several companies, and across consecutive months' threads.
The other nine methods
- Academic preprints
- Technical white papers
- Social media and meme trackers
- Crowd-sourced slang dictionaries
- Fan fiction
- Dictionary word-of-the-year lists
- Game wikis and patch notes
- Laws and regulations
- Software release notes