About
A naming tool that does not guess.
Why it exists
Every naming tool has the same two problems. It suggests names nobody can pronounce, and it tells you they are available when they are not. The second one is worse: you design a logo around a name, and discover on registration day that somebody has owned it since 2011.
Joyzera was built to avoid both. It grows candidates around a word you already like rather than inventing from nothing, filters them through readability rules before you ever see them, and then checks each one against authoritative registry data rather than inferring from whether a website answers.
How it works
You give it a base word. It attaches letters before it, after it, or both, then discards anything that fails a set of pronounceability rules — vowels colliding at a join, consonants stacking up where two parts meet, a repeated letter where English would not repeat one. Consonant runs inside your own word are trusted, because a real word is pronounceable whatever a cluster table says.
What survives is checked for availability, in batches, against live .com registry data. A name is called available only when that check positively confirms it is unregistered.
What it will not do
- Report a name as available because no website answers. Plenty of registered domains point nowhere.
- Hide a failed lookup. If a check times out, the result is Unknown, never Available.
- Sell you a domain. It is not a registrar, and it cannot hold or reserve a name.
- Rank results by who pays. The register links carry affiliate codes, disclosed where they appear, and they change nothing about which names are shown or in what order.
Who makes it
Joyzera is built and run by an independent software developer. It is not a company, there is no team, and there is no investor deciding what it should become. That is also why it is small, and why the parts it does have are the ones that seemed worth getting right.
It pays for itself through ads and through commissions when somebody registers a name at a linked registrar. Both are disclosed on the pages where they appear.
Questions or corrections are welcome — get in touch. If you would rather read how the naming decisions work, the guides go into it properly.