Can Artificial Intelligence help you generate a domain name?
Find out how to use AI to create your domain name
Choosing a domain name is a key step in creating a website or brand. With artificial intelligence on the rise, new tools now automate this process — but can we really trust them for such a crucial choice? Let’s find out in this article…
The domain name: a strategic choice
What is a domain name?
A domain name is the unique web address that allows access to a website. Technically, it serves to translate an IP address (a series of numbers used by servers) into an address that is understandable and readable by internet users. This address generally consists of a name (often related to the brand, the activity, or keywords) and an extension (.fr, .com, .org,…).
The importance of a domain name for your brand or project
As you can see, choosing a domain name is far from a technicality — it’s a strategic decision that shapes your brand’s image and online performance. A domain name:
- Boosts visibility, credibility, and memorability by making your site easy to find and trust.
- Can support SEO, especially if it includes relevant keywords — even if its impact is more limited today.
- Strengthens brand consistency by reflecting your tone, values, and visual identity — it’s a key reference for your audience.
➡️ In summary, the domain name is not just a web address: it is your identity, a mark of trust and performance for your project.
Tips to find your domain name
Finding a good domain name is not always easy, especially if you want it to be available, relevant and memorable. Here are a few examples of good practice to maximise your chances of making the right choice:
- Pick a short, easy-to-remember and pronounce name
- Avoid hyphens, numbers, or complex spellings
- Consider extensions suited to your business or audience (.fr for France, .com for international, .tech for innovation…)
The extension (or TLD – Top-Level Domain) is the part after the label, for example .fr, .com, .org… However, there are thousands of them… So how do you choose the one that’s best for you? Discover our dedicated guide: How to choose the right domain extension for your industry?
Artificial intelligence to generate your domain name
Finding an original and impactful domain name can be a complex task, especially when you’re starting up a project or lacking inspiration. This is where artificial intelligence can play a role…
What is artificial intelligence?
Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to technologies capable of simulating human abilities like reasoning, learning, and creativity. Today, AI tools can generate text, images, videos, ideas—even domain names—from a simple prompt or a few keywords.
These tools don’t create random words. They analyse your input, align it with linguistic styles or trends, and suggest names that best fit your project.
AI tools to generate a domain name
Specifically, we’ll present tools focused on domain names, rather than general AIs like ChatGPT or Claude. Here are a few AI-based domain name generators:
The NameStudio API (by Verisign) uses advanced AI models (Large Language Models) to turn keywords or short phrases into consistent domain name suggestions, across numerous extensions. Its flexible configuration makes it a major asset: choice of extensions, language, context (tone, industry, location…), everything is customisable! This tool is free and offers relevant and reliable results.
Offered by Verisign, it’s very likely the most powerful tool for generating your domain name using AI!
Namify.tech is a fast, free, all-in-one tool for generating domain name ideas, along with key checks (such as domains, social media, or trademarks). It is particularly suited to startups, entrepreneurs, and freelancers who want to find a name effortlessly. However, for those seeking greater originality or stronger legal security, it will be necessary to go further with manual selection and perhaps even professional support…
ChatDomain.ai is a simple and fast solution for brainstorming domain names through a conversational interface, with the advantage of checking availability in real time (like many of the other tools mentioned in this article). But beware… this check can sometimes be inaccurate: it’s best to verify availability yourself!
The added bonus of this tool? If you specify in your prompt that you want domain name suggestions with a particular extension, the tool will present its ideas, each time showing all the requested extensions and indicating whether they’re available… or not!
Find Next Domain is a rather well-designed tool! It allows you to choose the desired extensions for your domain name. Be careful: only a few are offered in the tool’s list, but if you mention other extensions in your prompt, Find Next Domain will make suggestions based on what you want! It also provides prompts by type of project (blog, e-commerce site, startup, portfolio…) and gives you guidance on the responses it generates, particularly regarding SEO impact or ease of memorisation.
To quickly generate short, unique and registration-ready domain names, with a good creativity-to-information ratio, Domains GPT is a tool you can rely on. However, it should be noted that Domains GPT draws on a predominantly English-language database, and will therefore be very limiting when it comes to generating domain names in other languages.
Even if these tools suggest “available” names, it remains crucial to check their actual availability through a registrar such as Netim, as the databases may not be up to date.
Prompt to generate your domain name
A good prompt is the key to obtaining relevant results with artificial intelligence. The clearer and better formulated the prompt is, the more relevant the results generated by artificial intelligence will be. Neglecting this step would therefore be a bit like shooting yourself in the foot!
To get relevant results, here are our few tips for a good prompt:
- Provide specific information: sector, type of audience, brand values, desired style
- Test several phrasings to enrich the results
- Don’t hesitate to specify the desired domain name extensions
- Specify the desired number of characters
Netim offers you some ideas for effective, detailed and correctly formulated prompts to generate your own domain name:
Example 1: E-commerce project 🛍️
Prompt idea: “Generate ideas for short, modern, easy-to-remember domain names for [sector of activity of future e-commerce site]. I’m targeting an audience [define target audience]. I prefer [insert desired TLDs]”.
Example 2: Startup 💻
Prompt idea: “Suggest domain names for a start-up specialising in [subject/sector of activity] with [start-up’s missions] as its main missions. The name should inspire confidence and innovation. Preference for extensions [insert desired extensions]”.
Example 3: Blog 📝
Prompt idea: “Generate original, memorable and available domain name ideas for a blog on the theme of [blog theme]. The tone should be [desired tone: professional, creative, poetic, accessible, etc.], and the domain name should be [short / evocative / in French / in English / easy to remember, etc.]. I mainly target [type of audience: young adults, professionals, parents, etc.]. Suggest the following extensions: [.fr / .com / .blog / .tech / other]”.
These prompts are, of course, only examples and should be adapted and customised to suit your needs! What’s more, the suggestions generated by the various tools presented (as well as by all the other AIs that will also be able to offer you results) will absolutely need to be reworked and checked for availability and relevance.
Using AI to generate your domain name: advantages and limits
After having listed a few examples of tools for generating domain names using artificial intelligence, it is important not to lose sight of the fact that the quality of this manoeuvre remains debatable…
What are the advantages of artificial intelligence?
Limits of artificial intelligence
To sum up
Artificial intelligence is a great source of inspiration, helping you save time on brainstorming and creativity. But on its own, it’s not enough for a high-quality domain name.
The winning combo? AI + human input + availability check = a solid domain name.
Before getting attached to an idea, always check if the domain is available.
With Netim’s domain availability tool, you can:
✅ Check my domain name’s availability ✅
Consider registering several versions (with or without accents, different extensions) to secure your online presence!
