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Brandomica – Check if a brand name is safe to launch on one search

Brandomica – Check if a brand name is safe to launch on one search

by brandomica·Feb 28, 2026·1 point·0 comments
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AI Analysis

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Consolidates 8-tab naming research gauntlet into one search with real domain pricing, not teaser rates.

Strengths
  • •Unified 19-source search (domains + USPTO + EUIPO + socials + app stores + package registries) genuinely saves hours of manual tab-juggling and domain flipping
  • •Real pricing data (Year 1 + renewal + 3Y TCO) directly undercuts registrar teaser-rate opacity—verifiable differentiation
  • •Filing-readiness gate (Ready/Caution/Blocked) + confidence reporting prevents false negatives; phonetic conflict detection (double-metaphane) catches homophone trademark risks
Weaknesses
  • •USPTO truncates to ~850K marks via FTS5 fallback (incomplete vs live TESS); trademark search confidence explicitly capped as 'limited,' creating trust friction
  • •EUIPO and App Store checks appear manual or fallback-linked, not automated—scalability bottleneck for high-volume founders/agents
  • •No API pricing visible; free tier with MCP/CLI/API bundled raises sustainability questions
Category
Productivity
Target Audience

Founders, product teams, AI agents naming new projects

Similar To

Namecheap domain checker · TESS (USPTO) · Brandchecker.com

Post Description

I spent 30+ hours verifying a single brand name. Check domain availability across 6 TLDs, realize the .com is $14K not $12, open TESS for trademark search, check GitHub, npm, PyPI, App Store, Google for competitors — 8+ tabs, every time, for every name. And now I'm shipping faster than ever with AI, so the grind multiplies.

Brandomica runs all of that in one search:

- Domain availability with real pricing (Year 1, renewal, 3Y TCO — not the teaser rate registrars show) - Trademark risk (~850K USPTO marks via FTS5, not screen-scraping TESS) - Social handles (GitHub, Twitter/X, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn) - Package registries (npm, PyPI, crates.io, RubyGems, NuGet, Homebrew, Docker Hub) - App stores, Google competitor overlap - Linguistic screening (7-language profanity + meaning detection) - Phonetic conflict detection (double-metaphone + Levenshtein against trademark wordmarks) - Safety score (0-100) and Filing Readiness summary

It works where you already work: web UI, CLI (npx brandomica check acme), REST API, MCP server for Claude/AI agents. No signup, no paywall.

Tech: Next.js 16, Vercel, Turso (SQLite FTS5 for USPTO bulk data), Vercel Domains API for pricing. The trademark index is built from official USPTO bulk XML — ~850K live marks, updated daily via launchd.

I built this because verification is the tax on launching, not the product. AI makes generating names trivial. Knowing which one is actually safe to use is the hard part.

Try it: https://www.brandomica.com

CLI: npx brandomica check yourname

Source (MCP server): https://github.com/BRNDMK/brandomica-mcp-server

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