A brief goes in. The registry has the last word.
Five steps. Only one of them is unusual, and it’s the one every other tool skips.
Describe the thing in one sentence.
Webault starts from a plain sentence about what you are naming. “A two-person design studio.” “A newsletter about container shipping.” “A fund that backs climate hardware.” That is the whole input.
There are no keyword fields, no industry dropdowns, no tick-boxes for “short” or “brandable”. A sentence carries more than a list of words: tone, scale, the kind of customer, the kind of name that would feel wrong. Webault reads all of it.
Write the way you would describe the thing to a friend. The more specific the sentence, the better the names.
Webault writes dozens of names in shapes that fit.
From the brief, Webault writes candidate names across several shapes:
- Compounds: two real words joined. formhaus.com, gridwork.com.
- Cuts: a word split across the dot so the extension finishes it. kern.ing, draft.ing.
- Coinages: invented words that sound like they belong to the field. quoin.studio, reglet.design.
- Real words on a fitting extension: a term of art from the trade, paired with an extension that says what you are. bleed.agency, gutter.studio.
The extension is chosen to suit the brief, not defaulted to .com. A design studio gets .design and .studio in the mix; a fund gets different ones. Webault draws from 532 extensions, the ones that are open for anyone to register.
Every name is asked of the registry, live.
This is the step that makes Webault different. Every domain extension is operated by a registry, the organisation that holds the authoritative list of who owns what under that extension. Webault sends each candidate name to the registry for its extension and waits for the answer.
There are three possible outcomes for a name:
- Taken
- The registry reports the name is registered. It is struck through and counted, and Webault learns not to write that shape again.
- Registrable
- The registry reports the name is not registered and the extension is open. It is shown in black, with a price and a Buy link.
- Unverified
- The registry did not give a clear answer: a timeout, a rate limit, an ambiguous response, or an extension whose registry does not expose availability reliably. Webault will not guess. The name is marked unverified and is never presented as free.
Because each row is a real lookup, a round takes seconds rather than milliseconds. Tools that return “available” instantly are either reading a cached list or not checking at all.
Availability is a snapshot. The registry’s answer is true at the moment Webault asked. Anyone can register a name at any time, so if you see one you want, register it promptly.
You see the price. You buy it somewhere else.
Every registrable name is shown with the cost to register it, so you can weigh a $10.98 .com against a $34.98 .design before you fall in love with either.
Webault is not a registrar. It does not sell domains, hold them, or take a cut. The Buy link takes you to a registrar where you complete the registration yourself. There is no markup to hide, which is also why there is no reason for Webault to show you a name that is not truly free.
Each round learns from the last.
A hunt runs in rounds. When a round finishes, Webault is told which names and which shapes came back taken. The next round stops writing those shapes and looks elsewhere.
If every clean two-word .com in a field is gone, the second round does not keep proposing clean two-word .coms. It moves to cuts, coinages, or a better-fitting extension. The hunt narrows toward what is actually free instead of repeating what is not.
532 is every extension you can actually buy.
The internet’s root zone lists well over a thousand top-level domains. Hundreds of them are not for sale to the public: brand extensions owned by a single company, restricted extensions with eligibility rules, and extensions whose registries do not accept open registrations.
Webault covers the 532 extensions that are open for general registration. That includes the familiar ones like .com, .co, .io and .ai, and hundreds of descriptive ones like .studio, .design, .agency and .fund. If Webault shows a name, you can register it.
Four things it will never do.
- Show a name it cannot prove is free. Unverified stays unverified.
- Sell you the domain. Registration happens at a registrar.
- Reserve or hold a name. The registry does not work that way, and neither does Webault.
- Pad the list. A round with three free names shows three free names.
Last reviewed 13 September 2026.