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What are domain name generators? How to use them?

Domain name generators come handy when you want to generate domain names from specific keywords. Based on your keywords domain name generators provide you a bunch of domain name suggestions. There are various online domain name generators that can be used for this purpose. In this article, we will see how domain name generators work and how can we use them to generate domain names.

How does a Domain name generator work
Domain name generators work on algorithms, different domain name generator can have a different algorithm. This is the reason you can get different domain name suggestions from a different domain name generator. We will see that shortly in the example below. A domain name generator analyzes the keywords you entered, append few words before or after the keywords, add some adjectives to the keywords, check for some synonyms or similar word of the keyword you enter.

Let us see some domain name generators, and how to use them. To see how we can work with domain name generators, let us assume we want to create a website on best schools advice and our keywords are best and schools. For all our examples we will use these keywords to generate the domain name.

Name Boy

  • Go to https://nameboy.com
  • You will see a text box on the home page, which reads: “Enter one or two keywords then press submit”
  • By default, the checkbox: Check domain availability with Bluehost will be checked, if you want to check the availability of domain name keep it checked, otherwise just uncheck that checkbox
  • Enter the keywords and hit submit.
  • The result will be populated with all the suggestions.
  • Click on the view details individually to check the availability of the domain. You can select the domain which you like.
  • If you want more results, just click on the Show more results at the bottom of the results.
  • Choose the domain name you like, copy the names and store it separately for further analysis.

Name Mesh

  • Go to https://www.namemesh.com/
  • You will a text box along with a button name Generate.
  • Enter your keywords in the text box and click on Generate.
  • A whole lot of suggestions will be populated. The suggestions are grouped into 9 categories.
    • Common
    • New
    • Short
    • Extra
    • Similar
    • SEO
    • Fun
    • Mix
    • Premium
  • Whatever domain you like, just save them for future analysis. Out of all the suggestions, save the one that you like.

Domain Wheel

  • Go to https://domainwheel.com/
  • Enter your keywords int he text box available on the home page and click on Search Doman.
  • It will populate a whole lot of suggestions with your keywords.
  • The search result will be categorized into 2 groups
    • Best Available Domains
    • Random Ideas
  • Scan the domains and save the one that you like for future analysis.

Lean Domain Search

  • Go to https://leandomainsearch.com/
  • Enter your keywords in the text box available on the home page and click on the search icon.
  • It will populate tons of suggestions.
  • You can sort the results based on Popularity, Lenght, Alphabetical.
  • In the search result, you will get some additional words appended in front or back of your chosen keyword. You can filter the result based on whether the keywords are appended in front or back of your keyword.
  • Scan the domains and save the one that you like for future analysis.

There are other domain name generators as well, I have listed only those that I had used at some point. You may be thinking which one is best and which one you use? So the answer is to use all of them to get maximum suggestions. Create a list of domain names that you like and then filter out which looks best. You can read our article on How to choose a good domain name for your website and blog? for guidelines to select a good domain.

Next Steps:
Hope you will be able to finalize your domain name using the above guidelines. Now, what next? Next is to register your domain. You can register your domain from below renowned and domain registrar. Clicking on the link below will take you to their website, where you can register.

If you are looking to host your website, I would advise selecting the web hosting company first. Most of the Web hosting companies will actually give one domain name FREE, yes you read it right, they offer a FREE domain with their hosting packages for at least one year. Check some of the renowned and trustworthy Webhosting companies below:

Hope this article would have helped you to secure your domain name. You can read our other articles on domain names and web hosting.

Also, Read: What is a Domain Name? How to book Domain Name?

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Ravi Ranjan

Ravi Ranjan is Business savvy and Technically sophisticated professional with experience of more than 14 Years, reflecting strong leadership qualifications, primarily in Project management and Business Analysis. Currently spearheading as Project Manager and handling Techno Functional role in an IT Firm in Mumbai.

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