A sentence goes in. A name that didn’t exist comes out.
Five steps. Two of them are unusual: the one where Webault invents, and the one every other tool skips.
Describe the thing in one sentence.
a payments companyfor freelancers
Webault starts from a plain sentence about what you are naming. “A payments company for freelancers.” “A two-person design studio.” “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, and what it writes is a response to the sentence rather than a rearrangement of it.
Write the way you would describe the thing to a friend. The more specific the sentence, the stranger and better the names.
Webault writes names that have never been written.
Most name tools do one move: they take your keyword and bolt something onto it. That move has been made by everyone, which is exactly why its output is registered. Webault works the other way — it writes candidates across four shapes, none of which starts from the word you typed:
- Coinages: invented words with the sound and shape of a brand. soleto.com, kavora.com, remitta.co. These have no meaning until you give them one, which is what makes them ownable.
- Compounds: two real words joined so they read as a single word. formhaus.com, gridwork.com.
- Cuts: a word split across the dot so the extension finishes it. kern.ing, clearing.house, solv.io.
- Revivals: a real word that stopped being used — 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, quittance.com.
kavora.com
Syllables nobody had put together, that sound like a brand.payloft.com
Two real words that read as one.invoic.es
The extension is the end of the word.florin.money
A forgotten word on an extension that explains it.The extension is chosen to suit the brief, not defaulted to .com. A design studio gets .design and .studio in the mix; a payments company gets .money, .cash and .finance. Webault draws on 532 extensions, which is a far larger space to invent inside than the one everybody else is queueing for.
This is the half of the job nobody else does. A name that already occurred to you probably occurred to someone in 2009, and they registered it.
Every name is asked of the registry, live.
Invention on its own is cheap. A language model will happily write you two hundred beautiful names, and most of them are already somebody’s company. So Webault does the other half: 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 to the registry for its extension and waits for the answer.
- payable.comTaken
- kavora.comFree · $10.98
- freelanc.erUnverified
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. Yours if you take it.
- 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 own what you take.
Every registrable name is shown with the cost to register it, so you can weigh a $10.98 .com coinage against a $34.98 descriptive extension 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, and the name that results is yours outright — to build on, to sit on, or to sell to somebody else later. Webault has no claim on it and no share of it.
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 somewhere nobody has.
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 coinages, to cuts across the dot, to revived words on a better-fitting extension. The hunt walks away from the crowded part of the namespace instead of pacing around in it.
Free is the floor. Brandable is the point.
A name that is merely unregistered is easy to find: add a hyphen, add a number, misspell something. Webault is not trying to find you a free string. It is trying to find you one you would be happy to paint on a door, and those have properties worth naming:
- Sayable onceka·vo·ra
- Empty of meaningCarries yours
- Fits a logo and a handle6 letters
- Matched to its extension.com, for a company
- Sayable once. If you have to spell it over a phone call twice, it costs you every day for a decade.
- Empty of meaning, or precisely full of it. A coinage carries whatever you put in it. A revived word carries something exact. The bad middle is a name that half-describes you and will stop being true.
- Short enough to fit a logo and a handle. Length is not a virtue on its own, but it is a constraint you live inside.
- Not one letter from someone else. A name that is a typo of a bigger company is a name you rent from their lawyers.
- Matched to its extension. obolus.money reads as one idea. The same word on an unrelated extension reads as a compromise.
Webault writes for these properties and then throws away everything the registry says is gone. Both halves matter: a brandable name that is taken is a disappointment, and a free name that is unbrandable is a waste of $10.
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, .money and .fund. Each one is a whole namespace where almost nothing has been claimed, because almost nobody has looked. 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, or claim a share of it. Registration happens at a registrar, and the name is yours.
- 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.
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