Two tools, one RDAP call, and a small lesson about which facts an agent should never be trusted to remember. Ask any language model for ten available .com domains and you will get ten confident answers. Most of them belong to somebody else. I know the number because I checked. I…

A language model is not connected to anything. The registry is. Understanding the gap between those two sentences fixes the whole problem. Every time I write about AI-generated domain names, someone replies with a version of the same question: why is the model lying? It is a…

What building a domain verification tool taught me about the difference between a model that generates and a model that knows. The specific moment I remember is the eleventh browser tab. I was naming a side project. I had asked an AI for domain ideas, gotten a list, and started…

A five step process that ends with a name you can actually register There are 401.6 million registered domain names as of Q2 2026, and 179.1 million of those sit in .com and .net alone. That number went up by 9.1 million in a single quarter. So yes, the name you thought of in…

Why ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini keep suggesting domain names that are already registered, and what to do instead. You know the feeling. You describe your business to ChatGPT. You ask for domain name ideas. It gives you twenty, and three of them are good. The kind of name you’d…

Why ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini keep suggesting domain names that are already registered, and what to do instead.