The words, defined plainly.
Naming and domains both come with jargon. Here is what each word means when Webault uses it.
The systemHow domains are held
The system
kavora.com
RegistryRuns .com. Holds the record of who owns what.
authorises
RegistrarSells you the registration.
records you as
RegistrantYou, once you buy it.
- Domain name
- A human-readable address on the internet, made of a label and an extension: example.com. The label is the part you choose; the extension is fixed by the registry that runs it.
- Extension, or TLD
- The part after the last dot: .com, .studio, .money. Formally a top-level domain. Every extension is operated by exactly one registry. Webault writes names across 532 open extensions and chooses ones that fit the brief rather than defaulting to .com.
- Registry
- The organisation that operates an extension and holds the authoritative record of every name registered under it. When Webault says it “asks the registry”, this is who it asks. There is no more reliable source for whether a name is taken.
- Registrar
- A company accredited to sell registrations under an extension on the registry’s behalf. You buy a domain from a registrar; the registry records it. Webault is not a registrar and sends you to one to complete a purchase.
- Registrant
- The person or organisation that holds a registration. When a name is taken, there is a registrant behind it. When you register a name Webault found, the registrant is you.
- Namespace
- The full set of names that could exist under an extension. A namespace is combinatorially vast: the registered part of it is the corner people have thought to type. Webault’s premise is that the rest is not picked over, it is unvisited.
StatusesWhat a row can say
Statuses
- payable.comTaken
- kavora.comFree · $10.98
- freelanc.erUnverified
- Registrable
- Webault’s word for a name the registry has confirmed is not registered and whose extension is open for registration. Registrable names are shown in black with a price and a Buy link. This is the only status Webault will ever call free.
- Taken
- A name the registry reports as already registered. Taken names are struck through and counted, and Webault is told about their shape so later rounds avoid it.
- Unverified
- A name for which the registry did not return a clear answer: a timeout, a rate limit, an ambiguous response, or an extension whose registry does not reliably expose availability. Webault will not guess. An unverified name is never presented as free, and never billed.
Kinds of extensionWhy some are missing
Kinds of extension
OpenAnyone can register. Webault covers all 532.
BrandOne company’s own. Not for sale, so left out.
RestrictedEligibility rules. Most people can’t register, so left out.
- Open extension
- An extension that accepts registrations from anyone, with no eligibility rules. Webault covers 532 of them. If it shows you a name, you can register it.
- Brand TLD
- An extension owned and used by a single company for its own purposes. Not for sale to the public, so Webault leaves it out.
- Restricted extension
- An extension with eligibility rules: a profession, a country of residence, a verified community. Webault leaves these out too, because most people cannot register them.
- A name the registry or a reseller prices above the standard rate for its extension, often because it is short or a common word. Webault shows the price it gets back for a name, so a premium price is not a surprise at checkout.
Kinds of nameWhat Webault invents
Kinds of name
Coinage
kavora.com
Syllables nobody had put together, that sound like a brand.Compound
payloft.com
Two real words that read as one.Cut across the dot
invoic.es
The extension is the end of the word.Revival
florin.money
A forgotten word on an extension that explains it.- Brandable
- A name you could build a brand on, as distinct from a name that merely happens to be unregistered. Sayable once over a phone, short enough for a logo, empty enough of meaning to carry yours, matched to its extension, and not one letter from a bigger company. Webault writes for these properties and then keeps only what the registry confirms is free.
- Coinage
- An invented word with the sound and shape of a brand — soleto, kavora, remitta — carrying no prior meaning. Coinages are the largest source of genuinely free brandable names, because a word nobody has written is a word nobody has registered.
- Compound
- Two real words joined so they read as a single word: formhaus.com, gridwork.com. Familiar and easy to say, but the obvious pairs in any field went years ago, so the useful ones are the unobvious pairs.
- Cut
- A word split across the dot so the extension finishes it: kern.ing, clearing.house. Also called a domain hack. A cut only works when the extension is open and the reading is instant.
- Revival
- A real word that fell out of everyday use — a term of art, an old coin, a piece of trade jargon — put on an extension that says what you are: obolus.money, bleed.agency. It carries an exact meaning without being a description that will stop being true.
The marketHolding and selling
The market
- Aftermarket
- The resale market for domains that are already registered. Prices there are set by whoever holds the name, not by the registry, and bear no relation to a registration fee. Webault does not search the aftermarket: everything it shows is free to register at the standard price for its extension.
- Domain investor
- Someone who registers domains as assets to hold, develop or resell later. For an investor the value of a hunt is brandable inventory at registration price, surfaced before anyone else has thought to type it. A name you register is yours outright; Webault takes no cut and claims nothing.
Webault’s wordsBriefs, rounds, hunts
Webault’s words
- Brief
- The one sentence you give Webault describing what you are naming. “A payments company for freelancers.” It is the entire input.
- Round
- One batch of names written and checked against the registry. When a round finishes, Webault is told which names and shapes came back taken, and the next round writes elsewhere.
- Hunt
- A full search: a brief and the rounds that follow it. “Start a hunt” is the button.
- Name shape
- The structural pattern of a name: a coinage, a compound, a cut across the dot, or a revival on a fitting extension. Shapes that keep coming back taken get dropped from later rounds.
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