Online Domain Name Generators

 Short and meaningful domain names are probably the scarcest resources on the Internet today. Virtually every word in the Oxford English Dictionary and combinations of the most commonly used words and phrases have already been registered in the expectation of selling the domain name or using it in the future. People, who wish to start an E-Business or take their current business online, find it extremely difficult to find a suitable name for their future website. Domain generators are designed to solve these problems by providing flexible and easy to use domain registration systems with categorized vocabulary and the ability to perform multiple customized searches. The idea of creating a domain name generator is over five years old. In early 1997, a student at Queen's university has implemented a simple offline domain name generator and then transferred it to the web. A prototype of this web-based implementation can still be located HERE.

There are several types of domain name generators:

v     x-word combinators

The most primitive form of domain name generators. Ask users for x number of keywords, create various permutations, and check them for availability.

Example: Alldomainsusa.com

v     custom domain generators

More advanced x-word combinators, which allow users to control the combination method and use more keywords in the process.

Example: CustomDomainQuery

v     automatic domain name generators

Generate domain names of length specified by the user.

Example: 123finder

v     random domain name generators

Creates random names of specified length and queries them for availability.

Example: no good online examples have been identified. 

v     categorized domain name generators

The most advanced form of domain name generation. Allows a user to enter a keyword, which he/she wishes to be present in the domain name, select a domain extension (i.e. .com, .net, .org ), select a category, which is the most applicable to his/her business area (i.e. internet, consulting, etc.) and choose a combination method(i.e. prefixes or suffixes). A system would combine a keyword with the applicable prefixes or suffixes from a large database, query Whois (the central domain name database) using combined names, displa the availability results and offers to register the desired names.

Example: Domain Fellow

v     intelligent domain generators (still in the development stage)

Using various rules of English language, a database of common suffixes, prefixes and connections, create English-sounding domain names according to user specifications (e.g. length, noun/verb, etc.).