domain availability and registration
Searching for a free name looks like a simple yes-or-no question, but behind every answer sits a hierarchical chain of who administers what. Understanding that chain explains why an "expired" name might still not be free for you to register today.
With no suffix specified, the search prioritizes the featured list: com, com.br, dev, app, io, net, org, ai, br and co, before offering the full catalog of 90 curated extensions.
"com.br" is recognized whole as the suffix, so the search focuses only on that combination instead of treating "com" and "br" as two distinct TLDs to check.
Without the second level "com", the registration falls directly under the ".br" root administered by Registro.br, a separate option from "exemplo.com.br" in the same namespace.
Use the result to compare positioning across TLDs, not just to hunt for the first available option. The useful reading combines branding, audience, market and operational viability.
The registry administers the entire TLD (for example, Verisign for ".com"). The registrar is the company selling the registration to the public. The registrant is whoever purchases and owns the domain. A purchase touches all three layers even though the buyer only interacts with the registrar.
Usually not. Most TLDs apply a grace period, during which the former owner can still renew, followed by a redemption period before final deletion. The exact length varies by registry.
No. It is treated as a single registrable suffix, the same pattern applied to other compound suffixes like "co.uk" or "com.au", and the whole domain is registered with the corresponding country registry.
They are ccTLDs officially tied to territories (the British Indian Ocean Territory and Anguilla), but the registries themselves started selling those extensions commercially to any buyer worldwide, leaning on the meaning the letters carry for technology and artificial intelligence.
You can enter only the label (for example, google) or a full domain to prioritize that TLD in the analysis. The goal here is not only to learn whether something is “free”, but to understand naming space as a digital asset.
Pick a starting point, or type above:
The lookup runs on the server with short cache and without sending the searched text to analytics. History is only stored locally in the browser for convenience.