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The naming and domain layer

Name what you’re building.

An AI agent that finds names worth launching and verifies every domain live, with the real price and the source. By hand, from your agent, or inside your platform.

How it works

Every answer shows its work.

The agent drafts widely, rejects weak names before you see them, then checks each ending with registrars and marketplaces. You get the status, the first-year and renewal price, the source, and how long ago it was checked.

This is the latest real run for “a calm telehealth brand for sleep”, refreshed every few hours.

What names.dev promises

  1. 01

    Names worth launching

    Taste, fit and meaning are reviewed before a name reaches you. Generic compounds and off-brief drift are cut, not padded out to hit a count.

  2. 02

    Truth before checkout

    Available only when a registrar says so. Looks clear only when RDAP and DNS suggest it. For sale only with a live listing. Every fact carries its source and age.

  3. 03

    One answer everywhere

    The workspace, the MCP server and the platform API return the same evidence. Anything you can do here, your software can do by API.

For platforms

From brief to live domain, inside your onboarding.

One API to search, quote, register and connect a domain for every customer you launch. Your nameservers, your brand on every email, signed webhooks, and a full sandbox. Your customers never see a DNS step.

See the platformRead the API reference
POST /api/platform/v1/domains202 Accepted
Idempotency-Key: brand_8f2c_signup
{
  "quote_id": "q_01JD8",
  "nameservers": ["ns-1.awsdns-01.org", "ns-2.awsdns-02.co.uk"],
  "privacy": true, "auto_renew": true,
  "metadata": { "brand_id": "brd_123" }
}
  • operation.created op_01JD8 · pending
  • domain.registered lumen.health
  • operation.succeeded signed · sequence 3
15 minbinding quotes
1 callto register on your nameservers
72 hof signed webhook retries
0DNS steps for your customers

For agents

Your agent can name things now.

The same live answers through MCP. Search, shortlist and check every ending without leaving the conversation. Spending money always needs a human yes.

Connect your assistant
mcp.jsonAny MCP client
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "names": { "url": "https://api.names.dev/mcp" }
  }
}

Marketplace

Taken is often for sale.

When the name you want is registered, we look for it on the market and show the listing next to the alternatives, with the source and the price.

Browse portfoliosSell domains you own
  • AtomBrandable names with fixed pricesBuy now
  • SedoAftermarket listings worldwideBuy or make an offer
  • AfternicThe GoDaddy listing networkBuy at the source
  • names.dev sellersOwners verified by DNS proofOffer here

What are you naming?