Show HN: Domain Wheel – Domain and company name generator

We have started the project during a hackaton here at Themeisle and just managed to launch a beta version for it.<p>While before I was wondering why there aren&#x27;t any good tools for this, soon I realise that is much more complex than I thought, for now we are using various existing APIs from Godaddy,DomainsBot and DataMuse with custom rules, exclusions and suggestions to make sure we deliver much better results.<p>It seems that the only good solution for now and something we are working on is to integrate MTurk or microworkers and generate suggestions &quot;on-the-fly&quot;, while building a nice database of data, I am passionated about ways that we can build a smart searh&#x2F;suggestion engine &quot;backed&quot; by humans, will see how much it makes sense.

I&#x27;ve used a lot this kind of services for giving me inspiration. I have to admit that I&#x27;m a bit disappointed with this one, it feels... uninspired. For the example I tried it just appended unrelated words like &quot;home&quot; or &quot;lunch&quot; to my keywords.<p>My personal favorite is <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.panabee.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.panabee.com</a> as it plays with the phonetic of your keywords. It gives a lot of weird things but usually one or two are catchy names.<p>Anyway, congratulation to OP for shipping something!

Here&#x27;s something I wrote just for this purpose a number of years ago. Yes, a CGI script, in BASH no less, producing an endless stream of domain names for your startup.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;Yetangitu&#x2F;83fc77acf3d381a32c40a8f89f7354a1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;Yetangitu&#x2F;83fc77acf3d381a32c40a8f89f...</a><p>It even tells you whether the generated names are still available in .com, .net and .info, feel free to add even more specious extensions here.<p>Running it with a good-sized list of adjectives creates... well, just about the same nonsensical drivel as that which seems to be produced by many other similar tools. This one is free though...<p><pre><code> EssentialDuck AssuredPig BelovedFrog ProfitableMonkey FrontLizard ColorfulGator InfiniteDuck </code></pre> (what? No ...Fish names yet?)<p><pre><code> GrandFox </code></pre> (sorry, taken for .net and .com)<p><pre><code> VivaciousPig FunctionalPig </code></pre> (for all you Haskell hogs out there)<p><pre><code> SuperiorMonkey RegularMonkey </code></pre> (taken!)<p><pre><code> IllHippo StarryHound DiligentGator IncomparableDonkey </code></pre> ...<p>Well, you get the drill. It is interesting to note that the list of taken domains seems to be smaller these days compared to when I made this thing, back in the heady days of dot.com.boom. Maybe folks have wizened up to the fact that all those nonsensical names started to look stale fresh out of the wrapper?

I entered &quot;fancy pants&quot; the initial block was all decent stuff you&#x27;d expect, and the response was quick. Yay.<p>The &quot;Check some carefully handpicked domains for you&quot; section included Dogban.com, Guppyra.com, Cruzani.com and other completely unrelated or ridiculous things, which made my brain say &quot;bullshit&quot; &quot;handpicked my ass&quot; I would kill that section because it&#x27;s a) totally useless to me and b) makes you look like liars because it is not &quot;handpicked domains for you&quot; it&#x27;s... I dunno random crap you thought was neat? i dunno, but unless i was selling &quot;no dogs allowed&quot; signs (Dogban.com) everything there is just... ugh.

Looks good and suggestions are good. A little OT but what is your opinion on using the new TLDs like .win, .rocks, etc? Does that sound professional?

I was hoping this would identify TLDs that fit into the company name. Like a company named &quot;Untame&quot; with website of &quot;unta.me&quot;

Broken on mobile. Tried a single word and it displayed a blank block of text.

Is there an open way of accessing domain availability information?

might want to let people register and save their favorite domain register. I use godaddy so it wouldn&#x27;t apply to me but, something to think about.