We checked our first name. It failed.
We almost launched as Clearname. Then our own check found a live software company using the name and a $1,000,000 .com. Here is that check, step by step.
Name it once. Not twice.
Before you buy the domain, print the logo or ship the app, see who already has your name: domains and look-alikes, both app stores, bundle IDs and every live site using it. Free, in about a minute.
- 7 domains
- Look-alike domains
- App Store in 4 countries
- Google Play
- iOS and Android IDs
- Live websites
- GitHub and npm
Most name checkers stop at “taken”. That’s exactly where the real problems start: a live product with your name, an app with almost the same one, an ID you can’t change after launch.
Why we’re called Renameproof
Type it, and if you like, one line on what it’s for. That line is what lets Claude judge context later.
A tool that checks if an app name is safe to launch
Check name
Step 1
Start with a name
Type it, and if you like, one line on what it’s for. That line is what lets Claude judge context later.
A tool that checks if an app name is safe to launch
Check name
Step 2
Seven domains, straight from the registries
.com, .app, .io, .ai, .co, .dev and .net, asked directly. For clearname, four were free.
clearname.comTaken
clearname.appAvailable
clearname.ioAvailable
clearname.aiTaken
clearname.coAvailable
clearname.devAvailable
clearname.netTaken
Step 3
Then we open every taken one
Free checkers stop at “taken”. We load each site: clearname.com is for sale at $1,000,000, clearname.net is parked, and clearname.ai is a live software product.
Listed on a domain marketplace
For sale · $1,000,000Placeholder page, no product
ParkedClearName shows you what ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI say about you.
Live software productStep 4
Both stores, and the IDs you’ll register
No app called Clearname in the US, UK, India or Germany, or on Google Play. com.clearname.app is free on iOS and Android.
🇺🇸 USNo app
🇬🇧 UKNo app
🇮🇳 IndiaNo app
🇩🇪 GermanyNo app
▶ Google PlayNo app
com.clearname.app app.clearname com.clearname
Step 5
Claude weighs what it found
A parked .com is a nuisance. A live software product with your name is a problem. Claude reads each site and tells you which is which.
AI reputation monitoring · $49/month
Example review
Same field as yours. Both are online software about names. A company already selling under ClearName can have rights to it without a registered trademark, and you’d compete in search.
clearname.com
A parked listing, not a business. Worth noting, not a blocker.
Step 6
A verdict, with receipts
Score 62: pick another name. Every finding links to the request behind it: 23 requests to 8 sources, timestamped.
Pick another name
Launch-readiness 62/100
RDAP · clearname.app · 404 free
Website · clearname.ai · 200 live
Apple · search US · 200
Play · com.clearname.app · 404 free
WHOIS · clearname.io · free
The difference
Same name. Very different answer.
What a domain checker tells you, and what it leaves out.
A typical domain checker
clearname
- .comTaken
- .appAvailable
- .ioAvailable
- .aiTaken
“Grab clearname.app!”
Renameproof
clearname Pick another name
- clearname.ai is a live software product called ClearName, $49/month.
- clearname.com is for sale at $1,000,000.
- Both app stores are clear in 4 countries, and com.clearname.app is free.
- 23 sources behind the verdict, each one linked.
“Pick another name, and here’s why.”
No name yet?
Describe it. Get names that are already free.
Each suggestion is checked for .app, .com and the App Store before you see it.
Name finder
A sentence about what you’re building is enough. Names whose domains are taken or that clash with an App Store app drop to the bottom.
From the blog
Learn the traps before you hit them
Questions
Good to know
Don’t find out after launch.
A check takes a minute. A rename takes months: a new domain, logo and handles, a resubmitted app, and an explanation for every customer.
Check your name