Tools · Brand-name availability check
Is my brand name available? Type it here.
Paste your brand name. In under three seconds you'll see whether the trademark register, the primary domain, and the handles you need are actually open — and if not, the exact reason each one closed.
What “available” actually means.
“Is my brand name available” feels like a yes-or-no question. In practice it's four questions in a trench coat. All four have to answer yes before a founder can launch without a rewrite eight months later.
- Trademark. Is there a registered mark on this string, in your industry class, in the countries you plan to ship in? The check above hits the USPTO, EUIPO, and UKIPO registers directly, plus the TTAB opposition corpus for adjacency risks.
- Domain. Is the primary .com registered, and if so, is it in use or is it a parked cybersquat that'll sell for $8,000? The check runs RDAP against the eight TLDs that matter for a modern brand.
- Handles. Are the social handles you need — GitHub, X, LinkedIn, and the platform-specific ones your product depends on — open? A taken handle is rarely a block on its own; a systematically taken handle across every platform means the string is already in commercial use.
- Common law. Is any other company already using this string in commerce even if they haven't registered? A common-law scan across commercial sites surfaces the pattern. This is additive evidence — it downgrades the signal, it doesn't decide it.
Each of the four gets scored on the same 0-100 scale. The screening signal is derived from all four together, weighted by the specific findings that drove each axis. You can read the full screening methodology if you want the details.
What the signal means.
PROCEED
Clear across the four axes we probe. File, register the domain, take the handles. Bring the signed receipt to your attorney consult.
PROCEED_STRATEGIC
Workable with specific action items — a narrower goods spec, a domain hedge, an alternative TLD. The findings list names each action.
ABANDON
One or more hard blockers. The recommendation is to drop the candidate and iterate to an adjacent name.
If the answer is no, what next.
An ABANDON signal is annoying but useful — it's the failure the launch would have hit in month four, arriving in month zero for free. The findings list names the specific blocker. If it's a trademark collision in a different class, sometimes narrowing your goods spec is enough. If it's a same-class registered senior mark, that's usually the end of that candidate.
The cheapest next step is often the smallest change to the name. Swap a letter. Add a suffix. Combine with a modifier. Then re-run the check. Iteration is free for the first five per IP. The business name generator is upstream of this page if you want a fresh shortlist.
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Frequently asked.
- How do I know if my brand name is available?
- Availability means four things at once: the trademark register is clear in your industry class, the primary domain is available or affordable, the social handles you need are open, and the name isn't already in commercial use in your market. The checker above runs all four in one pass and returns a single screening signal in under three seconds.
- Is my brand name available even if I found it on Google?
- Not necessarily. The most common trap is a name that looks clear on Google but sits next to a registered mark in the same industry class. Google indexes what companies say about themselves; it does not index the USPTO or EUIPO trademark registers with the depth those registers deserve. The check above hits the registers directly, plus a common-law web scan on top of Google.
- Can I use my brand name if there's a registered trademark on it?
- It depends on the industry class and the goods or services. Two companies can hold the same mark in different classes — Delta Airlines and Delta Faucets is the canonical example. If the check finds a registered mark in a different class from what you're building, that surfaces as a caution, not a block. If it finds a mark in the same class, that's a block.
- What if the domain is taken but the trademark is clear?
- That's a common outcome and it isn't fatal. Modern brands often ship on a .co, .io, or .app instead of the .com. The check surfaces which TLDs are open and which are taken; the signal downgrades from PROCEED to PROCEED_STRATEGIC when the domain axis is imperfect but not blocking, with an action item that names the specific alternative.
- Does it check foreign trademarks?
- Yes. Every check covers USPTO (US), EUIPO (European Union), and UKIPO (United Kingdom) by default. If your product will ship in specific other jurisdictions, add them explicitly — the WIPO Madrid check surfaces international filings across member states.
- What if I want to check five names at once?
- For a shortlist, use the brand name checker page and run each candidate. There's no batch endpoint for anonymous callers — one candidate per screening keeps the signal precise and the receipts individually verifiable.
Verify any result
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Paste any receipt at etymolt.com/verify to verify it yourself, cryptographically, in your browser. No trust required.
Open the verifierEtymolt is a pre-launch screening signal, not a legal opinion. Signals returned by the trademark, domain, and cultural checks are computational outputs derived from public registry data and proprietary heuristics. They are not a substitute for a clearance opinion by a licensed trademark attorney. For any launch with material legal exposure a registered trademark attorney is the correct decision-maker. Full terms: etymolt.com/terms.
Screening methodology v2.4 · TTAB AUC 0.6315 (n=177,880) · CC BY 4.0