Namera
Name your startup like a YC founder. Check domain availability, screen for trademark conflicts, and rank everything — so you pick from the best options, not all of them.

Install
uvx namera
Or install persistently:
uv tool install namera
Install from source
git clone https://github.com/siddmax/Namera.git
cd Namera
pip install -e .
uvx namera find --context '{"name_candidates": ["voxly", "dataprime"], "niche": "fintech"}'
Ranked results
┌──────┬────────────┬───────┬────────────┬───────────┐
│ Rank │ Name │ Score │ .com │ Trademark │
├──────┼────────────┼───────┼────────────┼───────────┤
│ 1 │ getnamera │ 92 │ Available │ Clear │
│ 2 │ trynamera │ 87 │ Available │ Clear │
│ 3 │ namerahq │ 84 │ Available │ Clear │
└──────┴────────────┴───────┴────────────┴───────────┘
Features
- Domain availability — DNS, RDAP, and optional pricing lookups
- Trademark screening — 12.7M USPTO trademarks, exact + fuzzy matching
- Social handle checks — GitHub, Twitter/X, Instagram
- Name generation — permutations with prefixes, suffixes, and TLD combinations
- Weighted ranking — composite scores from availability, trademark safety, length, and pronounceability
- Scoring profiles — built-in presets for fintech, SaaS, consumer, developer tools
- 20 TLD presets —
popular,tech,startup,fintech,geo-us,geo-eu, and more - Multiple output formats — table, JSON, NDJSON, CSV
- Agent-friendly — auto-detects piped output and switches to JSON. Designed for Claude Code, Codex, and other AI agents
- Fast — concurrent async checks with caching
Usage
Check a name
namera search voxly
namera domain voxly --tlds com,io,ai
namera trademark voxly
namera whois voxly.com
Discover names with business context
# Interactive wizard
namera find
# Structured input (for agents and scripts)
namera find --context '{"name_candidates": ["voxly", "dataprime"], "description": "fintech analytics platform", "niche": "finance"}'
# Only available names, as JSON
namera find --context '...' --only-available --json
Generate name permutations
namera compose namera --common-prefixes --common-suffixes --check
namera compose namera --prefix get --prefix try --suffix hq --tlds com,io
Rank candidates
namera rank voxly dataprime nimbus
namera rank voxly dataprime --profile fintech --json
TLD presets
# See all presets
namera presets
# Use a preset anywhere TLDs are accepted
namera compose voxly --tlds startup --check
namera domain voxly --tlds tech
MCP Server (for AI agents)
Namera ships as an MCP server so AI agents (Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex) can call it directly.
pip install namera[mcp]
namera-mcp
Add to Claude Desktop (~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json):
{
"mcpServers": {
"namera": {
"command": "namera-mcp",
"args": []
}
}
}
Two tools are exposed:
check_name— check a single name across domain, trademark, and socialfind_names— check multiple candidates with business context, score, and rank them
Scoring Profiles
| Profile | Optimizes for |
|---|---|
default | Balanced — domain, trademark, length, pronounceability |
startup-saas | .com availability (hard filter: must have .com) |
fintech | Trademark safety (hard filter: must be trademark-clear) |
consumer | Social handles + pronounceability |
developer-tools | .dev/.io TLDs + GitHub handle |
Development
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest tests/ -v
ruff check src/ tests/
License
MIT