Developer tools and infrastructure
Domain name search tools
Tools that generate brandable domain and project names, check domain availability (often via RDAP/WHOIS, CLI, or MCP for AI agents), and in some cases track domain sales, drops, or DNS changes, aimed at founders, indie developers, and domain investors.
Built for: Founders, indie developers, domain investors
Projects since May 04
57
Different builders
57
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
too few to tell
AI is the core
25%
Projects per week
Mostly web app (72%), developer tool or library (11%), service (5.3%) · from r/SideProject, r/SaaS, r/vibecoding, r/chrome_extensions
Latest
- UKDrops — Searches and shortlists upcoming UK domain drops, with filters for two-letter names, Ahrefs DR levels, custom searches and place names.“I built a UK domain droplist tool and added more specific searches. Is the filtering clear?”
- heade.rs — Looks up a domain or IP to show its hosting location, network route, response speed, registration, tech stack, email spoofing protection, and AI crawler access.“I built a modern domain lookup tool: view everything from tech stack to LLM accessibility”
- SnipeDomains — Adds domain research tools to ExpiredDomains.net, scoring expired domains and estimating resale value, potential buyers, and trademark or history risks.“I built a Chrome extension to help research expired domains faster”
- Domain Intel API — Returns branding, social links, DNS records, SSL status and headers for a domain in one API call.“I built a fast domain enrichment API to get logos, metadata, DNS & social links in one call (Node.js + Cheerio + SQLite)”
- nameitnow — Generates brand name ideas with AI and checks domain availability live across chosen extensions, showing only names with an available domain.“Every name generator I tried suggested names whose domain went in 2017. So I built one that checks first.”
- shortdomains — Lists short, brandable .com domain names that are available for registration at normal prices.“I got tired of searching for good .com domains, so I built a site to find the ones that are still available and don't cost a lot.”
- Snap2Domain — Checks domain name ideas for availability, scores them with AI, suggests alternatives for taken names, and saves them into organized lists.“Made a tool to brainstorm domain names, then used it to register one myself (video + screenshots)”
- Coiner26 — Checks domain and social handle availability for a name in one search, using pre-cached availability data.“Coiner26 - instantly check if your app's domain and socials are available”
- SnipeFind — Checks availability of many domain name combinations in bulk directly in the browser.“I made an ad-free, client-side domain scanner that checks 300+ availability combinations per second (SnipeFind)”
- Uplink — Lets an AI agent search, register, and configure domains and DNS records and host projects on them.“Uplink - Agent based domain management and hosting.”
- stealmytraffic — Lets the newest paying user redirect all incoming traffic on a shared domain to their own URL until someone else pays.“I built a domain hijacking experiment to test if the takeover model works beyond pay-per-rank”
- domaynly — Generates project name ideas from a description and checks domain availability for each one.“Spent way too long naming stuff, so I automated the part I hated most”
- Lists .lol domain holders in a directory ranked by how many sign-ups their referral code brings in.“I built a .lol domain, but it's actually good”
- domain2social — Checks whether a brand name is available as a domain and on social media platforms, and watches dropping domains.“this extension helps secure your brand name”
- namehunt — Generates brand name ideas with an LLM and checks each one's domain availability over RDAP, feeding results back into the next round.“Built a free brand naming CLI that checks domain availability inside the generation loop.”
- Dodomains — Lets Claude search for available domain names for indie projects through an MCP server.“I built an MCP server to help Claude find available domains for your indie projects 🦤”
- ncheap-cli — Lets a command line or AI agent manage Namecheap domain DNS records and connect projects to domain names.“Claude made me make a Namecheap CLI so it could just connect projects to URLs directly”
- DNSShift — Manages a Cloudflare account's DNS records, subdomains, SSL/TLS settings and other services in bulk from a native macOS app.“I built a native macOS app because managing Cloudflare DNS in the browser drove me crazy.”
- DomainHunter — Generates domain name ideas and checks their availability.“I got my first paying customer without spending a single dollar on ads.”
- donutdns — Checks DNS propagation by querying about 24 geographic and public resolver sources in parallel and displays the results as a donut chart.“I made a DNS propagation checker that shows the 24 sources as a box of donuts”
Most discussed
- Seekname — Generates brandable domain name ideas, filters to those still available, and compares registrar prices.“Tired of ChatGPT inventing taken domain names so i built a tool that only shows available ones”
- Lists .lol domain holders in a directory ranked by how many sign-ups their referral code brings in.“I built a .lol domain, but it's actually good”
- Brand Name Wizard — Generates brand name ideas and checks whether matching domain names are available.“I (reluctantly) vibe coded my first SaaS”
- ApproveIt — Scores a proposed business name on memorability, differentiation, category fit, pronunciation, trademark risk and longevity, and returns a verdict with a written take and PDF.“I built a tool that tells you if your business name is actually good — not just if the domain is free”
- Filters daily lists of dropped .com domains for brandable names using AI and sends alerts through Telegram when they become available to register.“I built a Telegram bot that filters good .com domains right after they drop”
- domainnotifications.com — Tracks domain names in one place and sends expiry reminders via email, Slack, text, or webhook.“I built domainnotifications.com so I never forget to renew my domains”
- namexploring — Checks domain name availability by querying RDAP registries directly from the browser, with shortlisting and name variation generation.“I built a domain search tool to avoid registrar front-running”
- domaynly — Generates project name ideas from a description and checks domain availability for each one.“Spent way too long naming stuff, so I automated the part I hated most”
- Domainee — Handles custom domain onboarding, TLS certificate issuance and renewal, and edge routing for customers' hostnames on a SaaS platform.“I underestimated what "let users connect a custom domain" actually takes. Sharing what I learned.”
- Onymetry — Generates product names end to end and checks that the matching .com domains are available.“It already works as a Claude/Codex skill and every name it picked had a clean $11 .com. Now I can’t decide whether to build the app or just sell the runs”