NewName.ai

Every published company sits in the main directory, ordered newest first (40 to a page), alongside a curated strip of editorial picks on the homepage.

Looking at the category breakdown tells you immediately where builders are crowding—and where the open shelves are:

The crowded halls: AI & Machine Learning (~495 listings), Developer Tools (~348), and SaaS & Productivity (~332).

The middle ground: Fintech & Web3 (~80) and Education (~17).

The quiet shelves: Verticals like E-commerce and Health still have only a handful of dedicated entries.

Every row is intentionally compact: name, a one-sentence pitch, category, and launch date—for example, Dola AI under Creator Tools: “AI images, video, creative and office tools in one studio.” Search and live category filters sit on the same URL, so jumping from a crowd of 500 to a niche of three takes one click.

Submitting a product starts with pasting a homepage URL. NewName scrapes the page and pre-fills a draft: product name, one-liner, and category.

That draft does not join the public count until you confirm it. Marketing homepages are often vague about what a product actually does, and an unreviewed scrape would carry that noise straight into the directory. You inspect the auto-filled draft, fix the one-liner if needed, and publish.

Every utility on NewName is public, free, and lives on its own URL. Rather than random widgets, they follow the exact sequence of shipping a new product:

Describe what you're building, and the generator proposes pronounceable names while checking live availability across .ai, .io, and .com. If both the .com and .ai are gone, it stops wasting your time. Need to check a raw list of your own ideas? Beast Mode verifies up to 100 full domains in a single pass (which I also link directly from the Watch drawer on this café's menu). Our rule of thumb on .ai is simple: only pay the two-year wholesale floor when AI is core to your product's identity.

Just because a domain is available today doesn't mean it's clean. This tool pulls the domain's age, its earliest Wayback Machine snapshot, and its archive history so you don't accidentally build on a penalized or spammy past.

Once a domain looks good, this checks whether the matching handle is still free across 10+ developer and social networks—including GitHub, npm, PyPI, X, and Reddit—so you can lock down your package name and social accounts before settling on the spelling.

NewName handles the naming and handle checks; for raw search volume, CPC, live SERPs, and competitor gaps, this page connects you straight to DataForSEO so you can validate search demand before buying the domain.

Queries your live mail records to verify the four signals receiving inboxes use to authenticate your domain—making sure your transactional and onboarding emails don't land in spam.

Verifies whether a domain's certificate is valid, when it expires, which authority issued it, which subdomains it covers, and whether TLS 1.3 is enabled.

Paste a URL to preview how your link card renders on X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Discord, Slack, and Google—and immediately spot which meta tag is missing when a preview turns up blank.

Inspect any live site (whether a directory listing or a benchmark like Stripe, Linear, or Notion) to see the underlying framework, CMS, hosting provider, analytics, payment gateway, and UI libraries.

Pulls the live Domain Rating (0–100) via the official Ahrefs API with no account required. Look up a single domain or compare two to four sites side by side.

Paste up to ten of your own domains on one side and up to ten partner domains on the other. The tool pulls live Ahrefs DR, reads the topical overlap directly from each homepage, and scores every potential pairing against customizable rules (such as maximum DR gap or minimum partner DR). It then suggests the cleanest link structure—whether a reciprocal link, guest post, niche edit, or an A-to-B-to-C cross-link so two domains aren't blatantly pointing at each other.

The directory answers who has already launched, in which category, and how they position themselves in one sentence. The tools answer whether the name you are considering can still be registered and shipped this week.

A listing with an unregisterable name is just a poster. A free name with no listing is just a domain sitting in a cart. I keep both on NewName because the builders submitting a company are almost always right inside that week.