# Changelog ## [Sort a bulk domain list by score or demand](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/bulk-search-sort-by-score) 2026-10-22 Paste a long list into [Bulk Domain Search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/bulk-domain-search) and the hard part used to come after the results. Which of these names is actually good? Which ones do other people want? You can now sort right in the table. Two columns that were already there, **Score** and **Extensions**, are now sort controls. ## Two new ways to sort **Score.** Every name gets an Instant domain score from 0 to 100, a weighted blend of memorability, pronunciation, length, and extension quality, computed instantly from the name itself. Sort by it to bring the strongest names in your list to the top. **Extensions taken.** This column counts how many other extensions already have the name registered. The more that are taken, the more demand there is for the name. Sort by it to see which names people are already competing for, or flip it to find the names no other extension has registered. ## How it works * **Click a header to cycle it.** The first click sorts highest first, the second lowest first, and the third puts the list back in the order you added the names. * **One sort at a time.** The Score and Extensions headers share a single sort with the sidebar’s length sort, so picking one clears the others. Ties break alphabetically. * **It doesn’t wait on availability.** Score and extensions taken are known for every row as soon as the list loads, so sorting is immediate, and a sorted row stays put while availability checks finish around it. * **On your phone, too.** Small screens hide those two columns, so the filter sheet now has “Sort by score” and “Sort by extensions taken.” Tap the lit option again to turn the sort off. * **Exports keep your order.** Download a CSV while sorted and the file comes out sorted the same way. ## Try it Paste a list into [Bulk Domain Search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/bulk-domain-search), then click **Score**. It’s free, and there’s no account. Tell us which sort you’d want next: . --- ## [Instant Domain Search, now in ChatGPT Plugins](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/chatgpt-domain-search-plugin) 2026-09-29 A lot of naming starts in a chat now. You describe the business, ask for ten names, and get a list that sounds right. Then you open a new tab, paste the names into a domain search one at a time, and find out most of the .coms were registered years ago. The model isn’t being careless. It has no way to know what’s registered, so it guesses, and it guesses with confidence. So we put Instant Domain Search inside ChatGPT. It’s now in ChatGPT Plugins, listed as [Instant AI](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6ab70b1720748191bcfd401a52975db0). Install it once, and ChatGPT can check any name across supported extensions and suggest alternatives in the same conversation. It’s free, and there’s no account or API key. Here’s the matcha cafe prompt from the listing. ChatGPT came back with ten names whose .com was not registered as of our last index build, then picked its three favorites. ## Why the chat needs a domain search A language model knows words, not registrations. It learned from text, and it never saw the zone files that record which names are taken. Ask it whether a .com is free and you get a plausible answer, not a checked one. Instant AI gives ChatGPT the check. When you ask about a domain, ChatGPT can call our search, read the result, and answer from it. The names it suggests come back with a status, and the ones it calls open were open in our index. ## What’s in it * **One name, many extensions.** Give it a name and choose from hundreds of extensions, including .com, .dev, .io, and .ai. Each request returns up to 100 results (32 by default). * **Up to 50 domains at once.** Paste a list of full domain names and get the status of each. * **Alternatives when a name is taken.** It generates .com variations with common prefixes and suffixes and reports which ones are open. * **Names with a domain attached.** Ask for name ideas and each suggestion comes back with its .com status, like the matcha list above. * **Trademark records.** It searches indexed USPTO records by mark text and shows the details of a filing, with the date of the snapshot it read. * **A research link on every domain.** Each result links to the domain’s page on Instant Domain Search, with registrar prices and WHOIS details. ## Taken names come with context Most checks end at “taken.” Ask Instant AI to check shipwright across four extensions and all four come back registered, but the answer keeps going: shipwright.ai is listed on Afternic for $4,000, and ChatGPT says so. Every domain in the answer links to its [research page](https://instantdomainsearch.com/research), where you can compare registrar prices, read the WHOIS record, and decide whether the name is worth chasing. ## How it knows what’s registered Instant AI reads the same index as Instant Domain Search, rebuilt every day from registry zone files and DNS observations. It doesn’t query registries live, so a name registered this morning can still show as open until the next build. ChatGPT passes that caveat along in its answers, and we’ll repeat it here: confirm availability with the registrar before you buy. It only reads. Instant AI can’t register, buy, or change anything, and nothing is sold inside ChatGPT. Trademark results show the snapshot date and are research, not legal clearance. ## How to add it When we launched the [domain search MCP](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/domain-search-mcp), using it in ChatGPT meant turning on developer mode and pasting a server URL. The listing removes both steps: 1. Open [Instant AI in the ChatGPT plugin directory](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6ab70b1720748191bcfd401a52975db0), or search for “Instant AI” under **Plugins** in ChatGPT. 2. Select **Install plugin**. 3. Select **Try in chat**, or pick one of the three starter prompts. Once it’s installed, the listing looks like this: Prefer Claude, Cursor, or another assistant? The same server works there too, and the [setup guides](https://instantdomainsearch.com/mcp/setup) cover each one. ## Try it Instant Domain Search is live in [ChatGPT Plugins](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6ab70b1720748191bcfd401a52975db0), listed as Instant AI. Select **Install plugin**, then ask it to name the thing you’re working on. Tell us what you’d want next: . --- ## [A domain appraisal that shows its work](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/instant-domain-appraisal) 2026-09-02 Ask three domain appraisal tools what a name is worth and you get three numbers, none of them explained. One is trained on retail asking prices, one on auction results, one on data that stopped in 2024. They agree on almost nothing, and none of them will show you the sales they used. Domain investors have a phrase for the whole category: “all appraisal tools suck.” We built the [Instant domain appraisal](https://instantdomainsearch.com/domain-appraisal) to be the one that shows its work. Type a domain and you get a value in USD, the three prices a name can fetch, a 0–100 score, and every factor that moved the number, next to the domain’s own reported sale if it has one and a live check of whether it’s available and at what price. It’s free, there’s no account, and there’s no paywall. ## A value, and the three prices behind it A domain doesn’t have one price. It has a quick-sale price to another investor, a marketplace price as a listing, and a brokerage price to the one company that needs the name. The same domain can be worth eight times more in the last case than in the first. Most tools collapse that into a single figure like $158,328, which suggests an accuracy no model has. The result leads with the marketplace value, because that’s the number most people are asking for, and puts the auction and brokerage figures beside it. If you’re selling, that’s your ladder: open at the brokerage figure with an end user, list at the marketplace figure, and treat the auction figure as your floor. ## Every signal, named Under the value is the part no other free tool offers: what the model actually read. Length. Word type. Familiarity. Brandability. Keyword demand. Extension. Penalties. Whether the exact domain has a reported sale, whether it’s one of the world’s most-visited websites, whether it’s short enough to carry a premium of its own. Then the live checks: availability and price, aftermarket listings, extension competition, domain rating, and age. Each one shows up as a finding in plain words, so you can see why a name landed where it did, and argue with it. A few of the factors are worth explaining, because they’re where this model differs from the others. **Brandability comes from what a word means, not how it sounds.** A concrete, common noun (clay, voice, cursor) reads as a brand in a way an abstract adjective (durable, crude) never does, and the companies that pay seven figures for one-word .coms know it. The model uses Brysbaert’s concreteness ratings, a dataset of how vividly people picture each of 40,000 English words, and gives concrete common nouns and action verbs a premium. Coined names like figma or twilio get their own signal: how English-like their letters are, which is what separates a name you can say and spell from a string of consonants. **Keyword demand comes from real sales.** NameBio publishes statistics on what domains built on each word have sold for, as a whole name and as a prefix or suffix. Words with a track record get a capped premium. Words without one don’t get penalized; most brandable startup names have no keyword history at all. **Generic prefixes are penalized on purpose.** getharbor, tryharbor, harborapp: names like these can be generated by the thousand, and the sales data says they sell for a few thousand dollars when they sell at all. The model treats a startup prefix or suffix as a discount, so you can’t make a name look valuable by gluing “app” onto it. **The model errs low.** It was calibrated against reported sales from 2025 and 2026, and where we had to choose, we chose to undervalue. A two-word compound that sold for six figures was a survivor; most names built the same way never sell. In our checks against reported sales from 2025 and 2026, most estimates landed within a factor of three of the price paid, and the misses were almost always on the low side. ## Reported sales set the floor Here’s the thing about ai.com. Judged on its letters alone, a two-letter .com built on a hot keyword, the model would put it around $1.6 million. It sold in February 2026 for $70 million, the largest reported domain sale in history, and the buyer launched a company on it with a Super Bowl ad. No name-based model can predict that, and the tool doesn’t pretend to. What it does instead is keep a table of publicly reported sales, from DNJournal’s charts going back to 1998 through this year’s, and treat a domain’s own sale as a floor. The result says so in plain words, shows the price, the month, and who reported it, with a link to the report, and separates the sale from what the letters alone would earn. When the domain has since grown into something bigger than its last sale, as fb.com has, the sale shows but doesn’t bind. The same logic applies to established websites. facebook.com is a two-word compound, and as letters it would price in the thousands. It’s also one of the three most-visited domains on the planet, so the tool prices it as a business, with a rank-based floor in the billions, and says clearly that this is a floor and not an asking price. ## Checked against the live market An estimate is only useful next to a real price, so every appraisal also runs a live registry check. The result says whether the name is available to register, a premium registration, listed on the aftermarket, or taken, and when there’s a listing it says whether the ask sits below, near, or above the estimate. Beside that: how many extensions of the same name are already registered (a demand signal that’s hard to fake), the registration date from the registry’s RDAP record, and the Ahrefs Domain Rating for a registered name, which separates an operating website from a parked string of letters. ## What it doesn’t know We’d rather tell you what the tool can’t see than have you find out. It can’t see the one buyer who needs this exact name for a product they’ve already built, which is where most of the record sales come from. It can’t see a trademark that makes a name unusable, though our [trademark search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/trademark-search) can. It can’t see private deals, which never appear in any dataset. And it can’t tell a bad word from a good one when both are equally pronounceable; it knows figma is brandable, but it would say the same of a coined name you’d never put on a business card. That’s why the result shows a range instead of a single figure, why it names its data sources and the month they were built, and why the summary at the bottom says when a sale or a website floor overrode the letters-only estimate. The same domain always gets the same answer, and you can copy a link to any result that reopens it exactly. ## How it compares We researched the free appraisal tools people actually use, including Domain Name Wire’s June 2026 review of fifteen of them against real, undisclosed sales. The short version: GoDaddy removed its comparable sales in 2024 and caps you at three appraisals a day; Estibot gives guests one a day; HumbleWorth is free and fast but shows a number with nothing behind it; Atom, which won that review, shows its work but values .com only. The full table is on the page. ## Under the hood The model is deterministic: a value is the product of a handful of factors, each with a coefficient we can point to, calibrated against reported sales and locked by a suite of tests that fail if a change moves an anchor domain out of its band. The dataset behind it (a 32,000-word dictionary with frequencies, 14,500 concreteness ratings, NameBio’s statistics for 13,000 keywords, the Tranco list of the world’s 10,000 most-visited domains, and our table of reported sales) is rebuilt every month and served from cloud storage. It runs on our servers, and the results are cached at the edge, so an appraisal you’ve seen once comes back instantly for the next person. ## Try it The appraisal tool is live and free at [instantdomainsearch.com/domain-appraisal](https://instantdomainsearch.com/domain-appraisal). Type the domain you own, the one you’re negotiating for, or the one you’re about to register. If the estimate surprises you, the factors will tell you why, and the sales will tell you whether to believe it. --- ## [The new expired domains tool: every drop in one live list, scored and re-verified](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/expired-domains-tool) 2026-09-02 Thousands of domain names expire every single day. Registrations lapse, side projects get shelved, companies rebrand, and names somebody once cared enough to register drop back into the pool for whoever gets there first. Some of them are genuinely great: short, brandable, real words, names with history. Until now, catching them meant stitching together drop lists, spreadsheets, backorder accounts, and a lot of luck. So we built a completely new [expired domain search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/expired-domains): every expiring and just-dropped name in one live list, ranked by a name-quality model, re-checked against DNS as you browse, and registrable at the registrar of your choice in one click. It’s free, and there’s no signup. ## Why a list instead of a search box Almost everything on Instant starts with a search box, and for good reason: when you have a name in mind, [searching](https://instantdomainsearch.com/) is the fastest way to find out whether you can have it. Expired domains are the opposite problem. The best names in today’s drop are exactly the ones you’d never think to type. You don’t know that a clean five-letter .com quietly dropped at 2 a.m., and no query would have led you to it. Search only answers questions you already have. So the new tool flips the model. Instead of asking what you’re looking for, it shows you what just became available: one list, the strongest names on top, today’s drop already waiting when you open the page. And when you *do* have something in mind, the list is searchable too. Type a keyword and it narrows to related names by meaning, not just exact matches. ## What’s in the list Open the tool and today’s drop is on screen, best names first. From there: * **Two views.** **Just dropped** is every name that has already dropped and can be registered right now at ordinary registrar pricing. **Dropping soon** is names still counting down, each with a live countdown to the hour. * **A score on the name itself.** Names carry a 0–100 quality score from a model we trained for this list (more on that below), so the strongest names sit at the top instead of on page forty. Sort by it, or slide the **Name quality** filter to any range. * **Demand at a glance.** The **Extensions** column shows how many other extensions of the same name are already registered. When *brexit.ai* drops and 81 other *brexit* names are taken, that tells you something about how wanted the word is. * **Filters that stack.** Extension, drop window, name quality, and keyword, in any combination. * **Prices where they’re real.** A name in a live auction shows **Bid** with the current price. A dropped name that a drop-catcher has already relisted shows **Buy** with its asking price and the marketplaces that carry it. A plain dropped name shows **Available now** and a menu of registrars. * **Save as you go.** Every row has a bookmark wired into the same [saved domains sidebar](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/saved-domains-sidebar) as the rest of Instant, plus the domain menu for a [WHOIS lookup](https://instantdomainsearch.com/whois-lookup) and other checks. * **Every view is a URL.** Filters, sort, and search live in the address bar, so “dropped .coms scoring 80+ in the last 24 hours” is a link you can bookmark or send to a friend. It works on your phone, it respects dark mode, and it stays fast: the list paints before the data arrives and fills in as it lands. ## A score trained on what makes a name good On a busy day thousands of names drop, and most of them are junk. A drop list is only as useful as its ranking. The first version of this tool ranked names with hand-written rules: length, dictionary words, a few penalties. It worked, but it couldn’t tell a good coined brand from a keyboard mash, and it had no idea what a name *meant*. This summer we replaced it with a learned model. People and a language model rated thousands of names against a written rubric (real words, pronounceability, meaning, length, how it reads as a brand), and we trained a gradient-boosted model on those ratings. Alongside the usual features, it reads a word embedding of the name, so it scores what the name means, not just how it’s spelled. Every name in the feed goes through the same model, and the list sorts by that score by default. The score is a ranking aid, not an appraisal. It reads the name, not its backlinks or history, so before you buy a domain for its past you should still [check its record](https://instantdomainsearch.com/whois-lookup) and backlink profile yourself. ## A list that knows what’s been taken A drop list is only useful if it’s honest about what’s still there. Good expired names get taken fast, often within hours of dropping, and most drop lists keep showing them long after they’re gone. The new tool double-checks itself. As you browse, every dropped name on the page is re-checked against DNS. If it still resolves nowhere, you get a green **Available now** and a choice of registrars. If someone grabbed it since the feed refreshed, the row flips to **Just taken**, and the footer tells you how many names on the page are still open. There’s a second kind of gone. Drop-catchers grab a share of the best names within days and relist them for sale. Rather than show those as available and send you to a registrar for a name someone already owns, the list shows the listing’s real price with a **Buy** button and the marketplaces that carry it. We could have quietly hidden the taken names. We kept them visible on purpose: watching this morning’s drop get picked over in near-real time is the clearest demand signal there is. You can see which kinds of names are hot right now, and when a name you’re eyeing is still green, you know it’s really there, and that you probably shouldn’t sleep on it. ## Dropping soon: get in before the drop Names that haven’t dropped yet are the other half of the list. Each one shows exactly how long until it drops, down to the hour, and the **Bid** button takes you to whichever partner is taking bids on that name, with the current price when there is one. Bookmark the ones you want and come back when the countdown runs out. ## Demand at a glance Every name in the list carries a small signal-strength meter: how many other extensions of that exact name are already registered. A word that’s taken in 80 extensions is a word a lot of people wanted. Hover the count for a breakdown of which popular extensions are registered, and click it to open the name in the main search and see every extension at once. ## Filters that stack, views you can share The sidebar is where you shape the list. Pick a drop window (the last 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, any time, or a custom date range), narrow to the extensions you care about, and set a minimum name quality. The filters combine, and the count on the **Extensions** header tells you how many you have active. Every change is written to the URL, so a view is a link. Send a colleague “just-dropped .io names scoring 70 and up” and they open exactly what you’re looking at. The search box works differently from the rest of Instant: it searches by meaning. Type *coffee* and you get names about coffee, tea, and cafés, not only names that contain the letters. ## How it compares Most expired domain lists are built for the professional drop-catcher: a daily file behind a signup wall, dozens of columns, no sense of which names are worth your time, and availability that was true when the file was generated. Ours is built for the person who wants a great name. * **Free, no signup, and instant.** The full list, scores, filters, and live checks, with no account and no export limit to upgrade past. * **Best names first.** Ranked by a model of name quality, not by the order names happened to drop. * **Green means green.** Every dropped name on the page is re-checked live, and relisted names show their real price instead of a false “available”. * **One click to buy.** Register at any of our registrar partners, or bid at the auction house holding the name, straight from the row. * **Built like the rest of Instant.** Search by meaning, shareable URLs, saved domains, dark mode, and a layout that works on a phone. ## What’s next An algorithmic score can rank thousands of names, but it can’t tell you that a domain is a perfect fit for a fintech brand, or that a name only looks great until you notice it’s a famous trademark with one letter changed. Language models can. We’re testing a daily **top picks** shortlist: an AI pass over the day’s strongest drops that reads names the way a person would and pulls out a handful of genuine picks, each with a plain-English reason it made the cut. We’re also bringing the diligence you’d normally do across five tabs into the list itself. You can already run a name through [Instant Trademark Search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/trademark-search) and a [WHOIS lookup](https://instantdomainsearch.com/whois-lookup); estimated value and social handle checks are next. ## Try it Today’s drop is live right now at [instantdomainsearch.com/expired-domains](https://instantdomainsearch.com/expired-domains). Hit **Browse expired domains** and see what came available while you were reading this. If something good is still green, move fast. Tell us what you’d want in the list next: . --- ## [The business name generator is now a conversation](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/business-name-generator-naming-assistant) 2026-09-01 Most business name generators work like a slot machine. You put in a keyword, pull the lever, and fifty names fall out: the keyword with a suffix, the keyword with a prefix, two industry words fused together. Then you check the domains and discover that the three you liked were registered years ago. We rebuilt our [business name generator](https://instantdomainsearch.com/business-name-generator) so it works the way naming actually works: as a conversation. You describe the business, an assistant asks what the name should lean into and what it should avoid, and every name it suggests is checked live for domain availability before you see it. ## Describe it, then talk it through The input is a sentence or two about the business: what it does, who it’s for, what makes it different. That’s the whole brief. There are no dropdowns for industry or tone, because the assistant reads those from what you wrote, and because the most useful information about a banjo workshop is not “music retail” but “run by two luthiers”. If you’re not sure where to start, the chips under the box hold a fill-in-the-blanks brief for a dozen common businesses: restaurant, podcast, YouTube channel, clothing brand, software startup, coffee shop, and so on. Pick one, replace the blanks, and go. ## Two questions before any names The assistant reacts to what you told it in a line, then asks one question: which way should the name lean? The options come from your business, not from a stock list. For the banjo workshop they were the craft, the shop as a place players gather, old-time and vintage, or plain and modern. You can pick more than one. The second question is what the name should avoid. It’s usually the more useful answer, and the easier one to give: folksy mountain clichés, generic repair-shop language, startup jargon. Then the first batch arrives. ## Every name is checked live Six to ten names at a time, and each one goes through a live registry check before it reaches you. A green dot means the domain is free to register at the standard price. Amber means it’s available but premium-priced. Red means it’s taken, and the name stays in the list, struck through, rather than quietly disappearing. Each row shows the best available extension first, with a few alternates beside it, and a Continue button that takes you to your choice of registrar. There’s an extensions control next to the message box if you only want .com, or only .io and .ai, and you can also just say so in the conversation. After the batch, the assistant says which one or two it would back and why, then asks what’s landing. Your reaction to real names tells it more than any abstract answer would, so the next batch moves in the direction you point. ## When nothing is available, it says so Ask for names built from familiar workspace words and you’ll find out fast that the .coms went years ago. The assistant reports what the check returns. When a batch comes back with nothing to register, it says so, and suggests a different angle instead of pretending. Taken names are still worth seeing. Sometimes the right name is worth an offer on the aftermarket, and the Make offer button on each row goes straight there. ## What it’s looking for The brief we give the assistant is short, and most of it is about taste. The target is an ordinary word used unexpectedly: familiar enough to read, say, and spell with no effort, and unexpected enough not to be a description. Nearly every weak name lands in one of two failure modes. Too literal is the category word with a suffix bolted on: clear, forgettable, and identical to every name built the same way. Too abstract is a word only insiders can connect to anything: if it only works once you’ve explained it, it has failed. The corridor between them is a plain word coming at the business from a slight angle. For a banjo shop that’s the part that gives the instrument its voice (Tone Ring), the string every player knows (Fifth String), or the old-time shape (Open Back). There’s a shape to it too. Two words is the most productive form, and where the available .coms are. Five to twelve characters closed up. Sayable over a phone and spellable on first hearing. And if a name would work unchanged for a competitor in a different trade, it’s too generic to show. The names you already know back this up. Apple, Stripe, Slack, Amazon, Notion: ordinary words, each coming at the business from an angle. Invented names like Google are rarer than they look, and they cost years of advertising to fill with meaning. The page now has a table of ten well-known names with the kind of name each one is, and why it works. ## From a name to a launch A name is only yours when the domain is available, the trademark is clear, and the handles are open. The generator handles the first part. For the rest, run the name through our free [trademark search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/trademark-search) to see live, pending, and dead US marks, open it in the [domain checker](https://instantdomainsearch.com/research) for social handles and a preview of how it looks in a search result, and compare it across 800+ [domain extensions](https://instantdomainsearch.com/domain-extensions) if the .com is gone. If you only have a feeling for the name and not the word yet, the [reverse dictionary](https://instantdomainsearch.com/words) is the place to start. ## Try it The naming assistant is live and free at [instantdomainsearch.com/business-name-generator](https://instantdomainsearch.com/business-name-generator). There’s no account to create. Signing in, which is also free, unlocks our smartest model and higher daily limits, and keeps your saved names across devices. Describe what you’re building. It will ask the right questions, and every name it shows you will be one you can actually register. --- ## [Introducing Instant Trademark Search: Look Up Any US Trademark in Milliseconds](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/instant-trademark-search) 2026-09-01 Anyone who has named a company knows the small ritual of hope and dread that comes with it. You land on a word that finally feels right, you type it into a domain search to see if the `.com` is free, and for a moment the whole thing feels possible. Then a quieter question shows up, usually a little too late: is this name actually available, or does someone already own it? We’ve spent twenty years helping people answer the first half of that question. [Instant Domain Search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/) has powered close to half a billion searches, and in that time we’ve watched the same pattern play out over and over — founders fall for a name, buy the domain, start building, and only much later think to check whether the name is already trademarked. By then they’re attached. So we built [Instant Trademark Search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/trademark-search): a fast, free way to look up any US trademark the moment you’re weighing a name, right next to the domain search you’re already doing. ## The trademark question is harder to answer than it should be If you’ve ever tried to check a trademark yourself, you know the options aren’t great. The official source is the USPTO’s trademark database. It’s authoritative and it’s free, but it was built for trademark examiners and attorneys, not for a founder with a shortlist of names and ten minutes to spare. Every search reloads the page. The interface assumes you already know what a “design code” or an “international class” is. It’s a good place to confirm something officially, but too slow and clunky to explore. The alternative is the pile of “free trademark search” sites that show up when you go looking. Most of them are really the front door to a service: you type in a name, you get a teaser of results, and then you’re nudged toward a few hundred dollars of filing fees. The search isn’t the product; it’s the bait. We wanted something that sat in between: as trustworthy as the official record, but as quick and pleasant to use as a good domain search. Something you’d actually reach for early, while the names are still soft and changeable. ## What Instant Trademark Search does Just like our instant domain search, you start typing a word and the results appear as you type. Every match shows the mark, who owns it, and where it stands, so you can tell at a glance whether a name is clear or already spoken for. A few things we cared about getting right: * **It’s instant.** Results come back in milliseconds, ranked so exact and close matches rise to the top. You can try ten names in the time it used to take to run one search. * **It’s the whole register.** Live marks, pending applications, and dead ones that were abandoned or cancelled: all searchable. A dead mark still tells you if a name has been fought over before. * **It’s fresh.** The index rebuilds every day from the public [USPTO Trademark Case Files dataset](https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/electronic-data-products/trademark-case-files-dataset-0), so new filings and status changes show up quickly. * **It’s genuinely free.** No account, no paywall, no upsell to a filing service. If you find a name you love here, we’d rather you go check the [domain](https://instantdomainsearch.com/) and keep building. ## How to actually read the results A trademark lookup gets a lot more useful once a couple of ideas click into place. **Status is the first thing to look at.** A green *Live* mark is registered and in force. An amber *Pending* mark has been filed and is working its way through examination. A red *Dead* mark was abandoned, cancelled, or expired, meaning it is no longer protected. When you’re testing a name, the live and pending marks in your line of business are the ones that matter. **Class narrows it to your world.** Trademarks are registered within forty-five international classes that split up goods and services. The same word can belong to different owners in different classes, which is why a coffee shop and a software company can share a name that a bank never could. Filtering by class turns a wall of results into the handful that actually apply to you. **It searches wordmarks.** Instant looks up the actual text of a mark, the name itself, regardless of font or logo. That’s usually what you want early on, when you’re testing whether a word is takeable at all. Logos and stylized designs are a separate kind of search, and one you’d do later with the official database or an attorney. Between those three (status, class, and the name itself) you can go from “I think this is fine” to “I should look at this more carefully” in a few seconds. ## Where it fits Naming is the part of starting something that feels the most like magic and the most like a chore, often at the same time. We’ve been building tools for that moment for a long time: the [domain search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/) that started it all, the [domain name generator](https://instantdomainsearch.com/domain-generator) for when you’re stuck, the [business name generator](https://instantdomainsearch.com/business-name-generator) for the blank-page days, and the [reverse dictionary](https://instantdomainsearch.com/words) for when the word is on the tip of your tongue. A trademark lookup is the piece that was always missing, the one that tells you whether the name is really yours to take. One honest note before you go: this is a research tool, not legal advice. It covers US federal trademarks, which is where most conflicts surface, but a full clearance also weighs state and common-law rights and marks that merely look or sound similar. When something matters, confirm it in the official [USPTO record](https://tsdr.uspto.gov/) and talk to a trademark attorney before you file. Think of Instant Trademark Search as the thing that tells you which names are worth taking seriously, and which ones to let go of before you get too attached. [Try it out](https://instantdomainsearch.com/trademark-search), and if there’s something you wish it did, tell us. We read everything. --- ## [Introducing Accounts on Instant Domain Search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/introducing-user-accounts) 2026-07-21 For twenty years, Instant Domain Search has been a tool you use, not a place you sign into. Today that changes, a little. You can now create a free account so saved domains follow you to every device. We know an account doesn’t sound revolutionary. Half the internet asks you to sign up before it shows you anything. That’s exactly why we took our time with this one. We didn’t want a login bolted onto the side of the search. We wanted accounts built the way we’d want them as users: private, secure, intentional, and free. And we wanted the foundation to be right, because accounts quietly unlock some of the most exciting projects on our roadmap. ## What an account gets you today **Your saved domains, on every device.** Until now, your [saved domains](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/saved-domains-sidebar) lived in your browser. Clear your cache or switch machines and your shortlist stayed behind. Sign in once and your list syncs live across every device you use. Save a name on your laptop, and it’s waiting on your phone. **No more save limit.** Without an account, you can keep up to 30 domains saved on a device. With a free account, save as many as you like. **10× bigger bulk searches.** [Bulk search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/bulk-domain-search) caps at 500 domains per run for anonymous visitors. With a free account, that jumps to 5,000. **First in line for what’s next.** Everything we’re building on top of accounts (more below) will reach account holders first. ## Private and intentional, from day one People search for names here that they’d rather nobody else see. A brand you haven’t trademarked yet. A product you haven’t announced. An idea you had ten seconds ago. We’ve spent two decades earning trust as a tool that asks nothing of you, and we want to maintain that trust as we introduce new layers to our tools. So here’s how accounts are built: * **Your searches stay yours.** An account syncs what you *choose to save*, nothing else. Searching never requires an account, and your searches aren’t tied to your identity. * **Cloud sync is a choice.** There’s a device-only mode in your account settings. Flip it on and your saved domains never touch our servers, even while you’re signed in. And the first time you sign in, we ask before merging anything you’d already saved locally. Nothing uploads without your say-so. * **We never see your password.** You sign in with Google, GitHub, or a one-time code we email you, so there’s no password to create, store, or leak. * **Your list is yours to take.** Export your saved domains to CSV any time, from [/saved-domains](https://instantdomainsearch.com/saved-domains). ## The honest reason we’re excited Here’s a reality of running a free public tool in 2026 that doesn’t get talked about much: a huge share of our traffic isn’t human. Meta’s AI crawlers alone hit our site about 20,000 times a day. Add the other AI labs, the scrapers, and the bots running entire dictionaries through our checkers, and the picture is clear: every feature we put on a public page, we’re also handing to every bot on the internet. For instant search, that’s fine. We’ve spent years making availability checks fast and cheap enough to serve at that scale, and we’re proud that the tool is open to everyone with no login in sight. But the things our users keep asking us for cost real money on every single lookup: deeper, authoritative availability verification, domain valuations, keyword search volume, social handle checks, trademark signals. Put those on a public page and bots would drain them within hours, and we’d effectively be paying to enrich someone else’s crawler instead of your domain research. An account solves this in the simplest possible way: it tells us there’s a human on the other end. And that means we can start giving humans things we could never give the bots. ## What accounts unlock next This is the part we’ve been waiting for. With accounts in place, here’s what’s on the roadmap: * **More accurate checks.** Deeper verification for signed-in users, straight from the registries. It’s the kind of per-lookup accuracy we can’t expose on a public page. * **Domain enrichments.** Valuations, search volume, social handles, and trademark signals layered onto your saved domains and searches. * **Lists.** Build, organize, and share collections of domains for your projects, your clients, or your portfolio. * **Credits and a Pro tier.** For advanced domain investors who need serious depth and volume, we’ll offer credits for premium data and, eventually, a Pro account. * **An API.** Accounts open the door to a self-serve Instant Domain Search API. It’s coming. And to be unmistakably clear about one thing: **Instant Domain Search is free, and it always will be.** The search you use today is not going behind a login. Accounts are free. Saved domains are free. What we’ll charge for, someday, is the advanced layer: the premium data and volume that professional domain investors need. The tool itself stays open to everyone, the way it’s been for twenty years. ## Create your account Click **Sign in** at the top of the page. It takes about thirty seconds. We’d love to hear what you’d want your account to do. Tell us: . --- ## [Search Domains From Your AI Assistant](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/domain-search-mcp) 2026-07-02 More and more, the first place an idea gets described out loud is an AI assistant. “Help me name my company.” “Draft a landing page for this.” “Give me ten brand ideas.” And then, every time, the same record scratch: you leave the chat, open a browser, and start pasting names into a domain search to see what’s actually available. The [Instant Domain Search MCP](https://instantdomainsearch.com/mcp) closes that gap. It’s a free connector that plugs real-time domain data straight into Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor. This means that the assistant brainstorming names can check whether they’re available, compare pricing, and suggest registrable alternatives without you ever switching tabs. ## What your assistant can do with it Once connected, your AI assistant gains three domain tools it can call on its own, mid-conversation: * **Search domains** — give it a name or a fragment and it checks availability across many extensions at once, the same [domain search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/) you’d run in the browser. * **Generate variations** — when your first choice is taken, it produces pronounceable, brand-coherent alternatives (prefixes, suffixes, and semantic twists, similar to our [domain generator](https://instantdomainsearch.com/domain-generator)) and only suggests names that are actually registrable. * **Check availability** — hand it a single name or a whole list (like a [bulk search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/bulk-domain-search)) and get a definitive, registry-verified yes/no, plus pricing and a link to register. In other words, your assistant stops *guessing* whether `acme.ai` is free and starts *knowing*. ## See it in action ## Why it’s different from asking an AI to “suggest domains” Ask a raw LLM for available domains and it will happily suggest names that were registered years ago, as it has no live data. The MCP fixes that at the source: * **Real, registry-level data.** Results come from authoritative registries (VeriSign, PIR, and others) — the same infrastructure behind [Instant Domain Search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/) — not a stale guess. [Here’s how that data pipeline works](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/how-we-keep-your-searches-private). * **Fast.** Sub-10ms responses, so checking dozens of names mid-chat doesn’t slow the conversation down. (More on [how we keep it that fast](https://instantdomainsearch.com/learn/research/building-fast-ai).) * **Private.** Queries go direct to registries and bypass retail registrars, so the names you explore don’t land in a sales database — or quietly turn “premium” the next day. It’s also, as far as we know, the only [domain search tool](https://instantdomainsearch.com/learn/guides/best-domain-search-tools) with a dedicated MCP surface. ## Set it up in under two minutes The MCP works with **Claude (Web & Desktop)**, **ChatGPT**, and **Cursor**. It’s free, needs no account, and requires no API key. Simply point your assistant at the server endpoint: ``` https://mcp.instantdomainsearch.com/mcp ``` We’ve written a short guide for each platform. Pick yours and you’ll be running in a couple of minutes: * [Claude Web](https://instantdomainsearch.com/mcp/setup/claude-web) * [Claude Desktop](https://instantdomainsearch.com/mcp/setup/claude-desktop) * [ChatGPT](https://instantdomainsearch.com/mcp/setup/chatgpt) * [Cursor](https://instantdomainsearch.com/mcp/setup/cursor) (Full walkthrough: [instantdomainsearch.com/mcp/setup](https://instantdomainsearch.com/mcp/setup).) ## Why we built it Naming is one of the first concrete steps in turning an idea into something real, and increasingly, that idea takes shape inside an AI assistant. It never made sense that you’d have to leave the conversation to find out whether the name is even available. The MCP keeps your whole loop of idea, name, availability, and registration link all in one place. It’s also where we think search is heading. As more research and building happens through AI assistants, the tools those assistants can reach matter as much as the websites people visit. A [domain search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/) your AI can call directly is our bet on that future. ## Try it Connect the [domain search MCP](https://instantdomainsearch.com/mcp) to your assistant and ask it to find you a name. When you’ve got a winner, open it in [Check domain availability](https://instantdomainsearch.com/research) for the full report, or run a [domain search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/) to compare every extension. --- ## [Introducing Reverse Dictionary — Find the Word You’re Thinking Of](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/reverse-dictionary) 2026-06-23 You know the feeling. There’s a word that means *exactly* what you want — the precise one — but it’s stuck just out of reach. Or you’re naming a company and you need a word that captures a feeling: something that sounds *fast*, or *calm*, or *rare*. A normal dictionary is no help, because you don’t know the word yet. You only know what it means. That’s what a reverse dictionary is for. A regular dictionary goes word → meaning. A reverse dictionary goes the other way: meaning → word. Describe the concept, and it finds the words that fit. We built one, and wired it straight into domain search. It’s live at [Reverse Dictionary](https://instantdomainsearch.com/words). ## Meaning in, words out Type a concept using a few words and you’ll get a ranked grid of related English words, streaming in as you type. Start broad: `mountain`, `fast`, `big house`. Here’s the fun part. Search a word like “instant” and you don’t just get the obvious synonyms, you’ll see words like jiffy and trice. Right away these might not click, but then you realize: a jiffy is an instant, and something done in a trice happens instantly. That little “oh, nice” moment is the whole point. It nudges you toward names you’d never reach from a synonym list. Each result carries its **part of speech** and a short **definition**, so you can tell `swift` the adjective from `swift` the bird at a glance. Want only nouns for a brand name, or only verbs for an action-driven product? Filter the grid to nouns, verbs, adjectives, or adverbs. ## How it works So why does it surface *jiffy* for *instant*? Instead of matching synonyms, the reverse dictionary scans the **definitions** of every word in the dictionary and surfaces the ones whose meaning is associated with your concept, ranked by how strongly they relate. Working from meanings rather than a synonym list is exactly what turns up those adjacent, evocative words. It’s built on a structured lexical database (WordNet) and the same fast Rust search service behind the rest of Instant Domain Search. This means results stream in as you type, the way a [domain search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/) does. It’s the latest in a line of language tooling we’ve built and written about: a [blazing-fast word segmenter in Rust](https://instantdomainsearch.com/learn/research/instant-word-segmentation-with-rust), [real-time translation with word vectors](https://instantdomainsearch.com/learn/research/how-to-use-fasttext-for-instant-translations), and the [embedding models that keep our search under 10ms](https://instantdomainsearch.com/learn/research/building-fast-ai). Reverse Dictionary sits on top of that foundation. ## From a word to a domain, in one click This is where it stops being a vocabulary toy and becomes a naming tool. Click any word in the results and, right there in the grid, you’ll see: * **TLD competitiveness** — how many extensions for that word are already registered versus still open. * **Available extensions** — the open TLDs you can register right now (`.com`, `.io`, `.ai`, `.co`, and more), color-coded by status and price. * **Generator alternatives** — [domain generator](https://instantdomainsearch.com/domain-generator)-style suggestions built around the word, with exact-match extensions pinned to the top. So the path runs *concept → the right word → an available domain*, without ever leaving the page. When something looks promising, open it in [Check domain availability](https://instantdomainsearch.com/research) for the full report — ownership, pricing across registrars, and alternatives. ## Why this helps with naming The best one-word domains went years ago — but the language is enormous, and most of it never gets considered, simply because you don’t think of it. A reverse dictionary widens the net. It’s the creative complement to our [domain generator](https://instantdomainsearch.com/domain-generator). The generator takes your keyword and takes the direct route to available prefixes, suffixes, and TLDs around it. The reverse dictionary is the indirect route, for when you only have the idea: describe the value your business delivers (say your product helps people grow) and you’ll surface words that tell that story without the obvious, already-taken match. * **Evocative brand names** — describe the feeling you want (“calm,” “speed,” “trust”) and surface words you’d never have brainstormed. * **Unexpected angles** — adjacent and associated words often make better brands than the obvious noun. * **One-word availability** — pair it with our [one-word dictionary domain lists](https://instantdomainsearch.com/lists) and the [domain generator](https://instantdomainsearch.com/domain-generator) to find names that are both meaningful and open. For the bigger picture on turning a word into a brand, see [how to choose a domain name](https://instantdomainsearch.com/learn/guides/how-to-choose-a-domain-name) and [how to name your business](https://instantdomainsearch.com/learn/guides/how-to-name-your-business). ## Try it Reverse Dictionary is live and free at [instantdomainsearch.com/words](https://instantdomainsearch.com/words) — no account needed. You’ll also find it under the **Tools** menu in the nav bar. Describe what you mean. We’ll find the word — and the [domain name search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/) to go with it. --- ## [Curated Domain Lists, Refreshed Daily](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/curated-domain-lists) 2026-05-08 Most “available domain name” lists you find online are stale before you finish reading them. Someone’s blog post from 2022, recommending names that got registered six hours after it went live. We built [Instant Domain Lists](https://instantdomainsearch.com/lists) so that doesn’t happen here. Every list is regenerated against live registry data. The names on the page are the names you can actually register today, not what was open the last time someone manually checked. ## What’s on /lists today Ten hand-curated lists, organized into four categories at [/lists](https://instantdomainsearch.com/lists): * **[Available 4-Letter Domains](https://instantdomainsearch.com/lists/four-letter-domains)** — short, pronounceable four-character names checked against `.com`, `.io`, `.dev`, `.app`, `.co`, `.net`, `.org`, `.xyz`, and more. Often under $25/year. * **[Brandable Two-Word Domains](https://instantdomainsearch.com/lists/brandable-two-word-domains)** — adjective-plus-noun and verb-plus-noun combinations that read like real brands. Think DropBox, MailChimp, BlueApron. * **[Single-Word Dictionary Domains](https://instantdomainsearch.com/lists/single-word-dictionary-domains)** — actual English words still available across popular TLDs. The most valuable category of domain. Hunting for a specific meaning instead? The [reverse dictionary](https://instantdomainsearch.com/words) finds words from a description, each with live availability. * **[AI & Tech Startup Domains](https://instantdomainsearch.com/lists/ai-tech-startup-domains)** — names built from the AI, ML, dev, and SaaS vocabulary. For the next Claude, Cursor, or Perplexity. * **[Pronounceable Brandable Domains](https://instantdomainsearch.com/lists/pronounceable-brandable-domains)** — invented words that follow natural speech patterns. The Spotify / Roku / Hulu shape. * **[Verb & Action Domains](https://instantdomainsearch.com/lists/verb-action-domains)** — names built around action verbs like Launch, Build, Sprint, and Soar. The Stripe / Shopify / Lyft shape. * **[Health & Wellness Domains](https://instantdomainsearch.com/lists/health-wellness-domains)** — calming, natural-sounding names for clinics, studios, coaches, and supplement brands. Think PureCalm, GlowHeal, NourishLeaf. * **[Fintech & Banking Domains](https://instantdomainsearch.com/lists/fintech-banking-domains)** — trustworthy, modern names for neobanks, payment apps, lending, and investing startups. Think RampPeak, FinFund, AltoSilver. * **[Travel & Hospitality Domains](https://instantdomainsearch.com/lists/travel-hospitality-domains)** — evocative names for hotels, resorts, tour operators, vacation rentals, and travel startups. Think SereneCape, CharmingCoast, GildedVilla. * **[Food & Restaurant Domains](https://instantdomainsearch.com/lists/food-restaurant-domains)** — mouthwatering names for restaurants, cafes, bakeries, food trucks, catering, and specialty food brands. Think SmokyTavern, RusticTable, CharredFeast. Filter the hub by category to narrow in (Brandable, Short, Dictionary, Tech & AI), and each list cross-links to two related lists at the bottom so you can keep digging. ## Live data, not a stale snapshot Here’s what actually makes these different from the lists in someone’s listicle. Every domain on every list is checked against live registry data. We pull availability directly from registries — VeriSign, Identity Digital, Public Interest Registry, and [380+ others we partner with](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/how-we-keep-your-searches-private) — instead of going through retail registrar APIs that throttle, cache, or serve stale results. Each list page shows you the totals upfront: how many domains are in it, how many are available right now, and the percentage that’s still open. That counter moves. Domains expire, get registered, change hands. The next time the list rebuilds, the page reflects reality. The data behind each list is also published openly: every list page documents its methodology. How the names were generated, what filters were applied, which TLDs are checked. The aim is that the list is good not just because the names are good, but because you can see exactly how we got to them. ## Open any list in bulk Lists work best when they connect to action. Every list has a “Check all” button that loads the entire list into [bulk domain search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/bulk-domain-search). From there you can: * Filter by TLD to narrow to .com, .io, .ai, or whatever extension fits. * Filter by price to find the cheap-to-register names or the premium ones. * Sort by length, status, or pricing. * Export the filtered set to CSV. * Bookmark individual names into the new [Saved Domains sidebar](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/saved-domains-sidebar) so you can come back to your shortlist. A “list” on most sites is a dead end. On Instant it’s the start of your research — a curated input you can slice, save, and act on without ever leaving the tool. ## Why the data underneath matters Most “available domains” lists fall apart for the same reason: the data behind them is slow or inaccurate, so they get stale fast and nobody trusts them. This works on Instant because the underlying search stack is built for fresh data at scale: * **Direct registry partnerships across 380+ TLDs.** Availability comes straight from registries, not through retail registrar APIs that rate-limit aggregators. ([How direct registry partnerships work.](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/how-we-keep-your-searches-private)) * **Sub-25 ms aftermarket lookups.** Aftermarket pricing on each list is fed by a [Wikipedia-trained embedding model](https://instantdomainsearch.com/learn/research/building-fast-ai) that ranks names by semantic similarity in under 25 milliseconds. * **Smart partner routing across seven registrars.** Click any domain and we route you to a registrar that actually supports the TLD, with [real-time price comparison across all seven of our partners](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/smart-partner-routing) (Namecheap, GoDaddy, Porkbun, Hostinger, Dynadot, Spaceship, Network Solutions). * **800+ TLDs supported.** Lists span the full extension landscape we cover, not just the popular .coms. That’s why the counts on every list are honest. We’re checking the same way we check when you type a name into the search box. ## What’s next Right now /lists is curated by us. The next chapter is letting you curate too — save your own list of bookmarked names, share it with a link, watch the availability tick down as registrations come in. We’ll have more on that soon. In the meantime, every weekly drop on social goes here first. If a new list shows up at /lists, it’s the freshest source. ## Try it Browse [/lists](https://instantdomainsearch.com/lists), pick a list that fits what you’re naming, click into it, and use the “Check all” button to open the full set in [bulk domain search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/bulk-domain-search). Bookmark the ones worth a second look. A list you’d want us to build? . --- ## [Filter Domain Availability Instantly](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/instant-filters) 2026-05-07 We just shipped **filters** on Instant Domain Search — narrow your results to available, premium, aftermarket, or taken with a single click. It’s been our most-requested feature for years. Getting it onto a tool that has to stay *instant* turned into one of the more interesting design problems we’ve worked on. ## Why filters were hard On most search tools, filters are a server thing. Click a filter, fire a new query, swap in a fresh page of results. That works because most of those tools already make you wait a moment for results to begin with — another half-second on top of that doesn’t feel any worse. It doesn’t work on a tool whose results land faster than your keystrokes. The first version we tried sent a server query on every filter toggle and the page flashed every single time. Type a letter, flash. Toggle a filter, flash. Type another letter, flash again. The whole point of Instant is that you stay in flow, and we’d just shipped a feature that broke it. So we kept punting on filters for years, even though they were the single feature people asked for most. ## How we built them The trick was to stop treating filters as a server concern. When you search a name on [Instant Domain Search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/), one streaming query delivers every relevant result into the page at the speed of your typing. We pull availability directly from registries (we have partnerships with 380+ of them) instead of going through retail registrar APIs that throttle and cache. Aftermarket matches come from a Wikipedia-trained embedding model that returns results in under 25 ms. Registrar pricing is fetched in parallel from all seven of our partners. The whole stack is built to get the entire result set in front of you faster than you can finish typing. Once the data’s already there, filters don’t need a server. They just need to re-rank what’s on the page. So that’s what they do now. Toggle “Available” and the matches jump to the top while non-matching results fade back. Toggle “Aftermarket” and the secondary-market names move up. There’s no round-trip, no flash, no waiting. The page reorganizes in batches as new results stream in, so even mid-query the experience stays smooth. The result: filters that feel like part of the same instant experience as everything else, instead of a slow extra step bolted on top. ## Why most tools can’t do this Local-first filtering only works if the underlying search is fast enough to deliver the full result set in real time. Most domain search tools paginate or query-on-toggle because their data isn’t streaming in fast enough to filter against — they’re waiting on registrar APIs, hopping between retail partners, or running keyword matches that need the server to do the heavy lifting. Instant doesn’t have that bottleneck: * **Direct registry data.** We pull availability from VeriSign, Identity Digital, Public Interest Registry, and [380+ other registries](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/how-we-keep-your-searches-private) we partner with directly. No retail registrar APIs in the search path. ([More on how we make it fast.](https://instantdomainsearch.com/learn/research/how-we-make-it-fast)) * **Sub-25 ms aftermarket.** Our [aftermarket model](https://instantdomainsearch.com/learn/research/building-fast-ai) ranks names by semantic similarity, not keyword match — so “supercoolapp” surfaces names like “rocketlabs” and “stellartools,” not just literal substring matches. * **Parallel registrar pricing.** Real-time price comparison across all seven of our partners (Namecheap, GoDaddy, Porkbun, Hostinger, Dynadot, Spaceship, Network Solutions), surfaced inline. * **800+ TLD coverage.** Filters work across every extension we support, not just the popular .coms. Because the data is all there in milliseconds, filtering it in the browser becomes the obvious move. That’s the only reason this works. ## What you can filter Four status filters, available across [domain search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/), the [domain generator](https://instantdomainsearch.com/domain-generator), our [extension pages](https://instantdomainsearch.com/domain-extensions), and the aftermarket tab: * **Available** — domains you can register today at standard pricing. * **Premium** — registry-priced premium names with the price surfaced upfront. * **Aftermarket** — names listed on dan.com, Sedo, Atom, BrandBucket, Afternic, and the other marketplaces we work with. * **Taken** — already registered, so you can quickly see what’s been claimed and what’s still open in the same view. Toggle any combination. The counts update live as more results stream in. We also added dropdown filters where they make sense: pick a TLD on the [domain generator](https://instantdomainsearch.com/domain-generator) to brainstorm against a specific extension, or filter by TLD and price on [bulk domain search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/bulk-domain-search) when you’re slicing through thousands of names at once. ## Try it [Search a domain](https://instantdomainsearch.com/) and use the filter chips above the results. Toggle one on, type a few more letters, and watch the matches stay pinned to the top. Filters you’d want to see next? . --- ## [Introducing the Saved Domains Sidebar](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/saved-domains-sidebar) 2026-05-06 We rebuilt **Saved Domains** as a sidebar that lives next to your search. Bookmark anything worth a second look, click into the full picture for any saved name without leaving the page, and keep a working shortlist as you go. ## Why we built it Picking a domain isn’t one search. It’s twenty. You find a name that could work, chase it through availability, registrar prices, alternate TLDs, the aftermarket — and by the time you’ve actually looked into it, you’ve lost track of the other three you liked. The old saved-domains dropdown was fine for stashing a name. It wasn’t built for the way people actually narrow down a list. So we rebuilt it as a sidebar that stays open alongside whatever you’re doing. Search, bookmark, click into details, jump back. No page refreshes, no losing your place. ## What’s new **Bookmark from anywhere.** Every result on [Instant Domain Search](https://instantdomainsearch.com/) and [Check](https://instantdomainsearch.com/research) has a bookmark icon. One click saves it to your sidebar. **Full domain details, in-place.** Click any saved domain and the sidebar expands into a details view that adapts to whatever the domain is. You only see what’s relevant for its status: * **Available** — real-time pricing from our seven registrar partners (Namecheap, GoDaddy, Porkbun, Hostinger, Dynadot, Spaceship, Network Solutions), TLD competitiveness across 800+ extensions, and a list of alternative TLDs you can register right now. * **Premium** — the same registrar comparison, with each partner’s premium price surfaced upfront so there are no surprises at checkout. * **Aftermarket** — live listings from dan.com, Atom, Sedo, BrandBucket, Afternic, and the other marketplaces we work with, plus suggested alternative names if you’d rather skip the secondary market. * **Taken** — live OpenGraph data pulled from the site so you can see what’s actually on the page without leaving, full WHOIS (registrant, registration date, expiration), and a curated list of similar names you might be able to register instead. **Persistent across devices.** Sign in once and your saved domains follow you between sessions and devices. Prefer to keep things local? An opt-out toggle keeps everything on your browser only — saved domains never have to touch our servers if you don’t want them to. **A dedicated page for the long list.** When your shortlist outgrows the sidebar, [/saved-domains](https://instantdomainsearch.com/saved-domains) gives you the same data in a sortable table, grouped by status, with one-click CSV export. ## Why this works as well as it does A sidebar is only useful if the data behind it shows up fast. Click a saved name and you should know everything about it before you’ve finished thinking about why you saved it. That’s why this took us a while to ship. Most domain tools route their availability through retail registrar APIs, which means the moment you click into a name you’re waiting on a third-party server. Instant pulls availability directly from registries — VeriSign, Identity Digital, Public Interest Registry, and 380+ others we have direct partnerships with — so checks come back in milliseconds. Aftermarket listings come from a Wikipedia-trained embedding model that ranks names by semantic similarity in under 25ms. Registrar pricing is fetched in parallel from all seven partners and shown side-by-side, with [smart partner routing](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/smart-partner-routing) hiding any registrar that doesn’t actually support the TLD you’re looking at. In other words: the sidebar isn’t a new data layer. It’s the same fast pipeline our search runs on, surfaced where you need it without taking you away from what you were doing. It’s also where we’ll keep adding more. Today it surfaces saved domains and check data. Soon it’ll handle generator suggestions, bulk results, and more of the tools we ship — all in one place, none of them a context switch. ## Try it [Search a domain](https://instantdomainsearch.com/) and click the bookmark icon on any result. Open the sidebar and click into a saved name to see the full details view. Or jump to [/saved-domains](https://instantdomainsearch.com/saved-domains) for the full table. What would you want to see in the sidebar next? . [1](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog) · [2](https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/page/2)