Connected ChatGPT/Claude to live availability: what's useful for investors and what isn't (founder, feedback welcome)

[taunon]

I'm the founder of NameStation. We have an MCP connector that lets ChatGPT, Claude and other AI assistants call our tools directly: generate names, check live availability, see aftermarket asks and run a trademark screen. I shared the prompts I use in another thread. This one is about the tool itself, and I'd rather hear from investors than from SaaS founders, so here's an honest write-up of where it helps and where it doesn't.

The core problem: a plain chatbot is useless for domains. It confidently suggests names that were registered in 2009. Once it's tied to a live check, it changes from an idea toy into a sourcing tool.

What has earned its keep:

• Batch niches, not names. Give it 20 topics from this week's funding news and ask for available .coms for each. You get breadth you'd never brainstorm, in one pass.
• Taken vs. for sale. For taken names it shows the aftermarket ask, so you can compare a $12 reg with a $1,500 BIN for the same buyer.
• All extensions at once. Useful when the .com is gone and you're deciding whether the .ai or .io is worth $70+/yr in renewals.
• TM screen before you reg. Worth it in health and fintech, where cute names are often UDRP bait.

What doesn't work:

• Letting it choose. It has no idea what end users pay for, and it rates its own output generously.
• Single-word or short .com hunting. Those aren't sitting unregistered, so no tool finds them. That's an aftermarket/drops game.
• Prompting without constraints. Give it length, style and "exclude anything that sounds like a drug name/bank name", or you get mush.

Example run (prompt: "fintech + AI agents, brandable, ≤10 letters, .com only, available"): Bancello.com, Spendril.com, Tillyr.com, AgentWisp.com, AgentMox.com, ClaimPilotry.com, all unregistered at time of posting. I'd reg one or two of those, which is about the normal hit rate.

The same workflow works with any bulk checker plus any LLM if you'd rather not use ours. What I want to know is what investors would actually want an assistant to do: auction filtering? Expiring-list triage? Price checks against comps? Tell me what's missing and I'll answer questions here.

 

[KarmaDomains]

I'm the founder of NameStation. We have an MCP connector that lets ChatGPT, Claude and other AI assistants call our tools directly: generate names, check live availability, see aftermarket asks and run a trademark screen. I shared the prompts I use in another thread. This one is about the tool itself, and I'd rather hear from investors than from SaaS founders, so here's an honest write-up of where it helps and where it doesn't.

The core problem: a plain chatbot is useless for domains. It confidently suggests names that were registered in 2009. Once it's tied to a live check, it changes from an idea toy into a sourcing tool.

What has earned its keep:

• Batch niches, not names. Give it 20 topics from this week's funding news and ask for available .coms for each. You get breadth you'd never brainstorm, in one pass.
• Taken vs. for sale. For taken names it shows the aftermarket ask, so you can compare a $12 reg with a $1,500 BIN for the same buyer.
• All extensions at once. Useful when the .com is gone and you're deciding whether the .ai or .io is worth $70+/yr in renewals.
• TM screen before you reg. Worth it in health and fintech, where cute names are often UDRP bait.

What doesn't work:

• Letting it choose. It has no idea what end users pay for, and it rates its own output generously.
• Single-word or short .com hunting. Those aren't sitting unregistered, so no tool finds them. That's an aftermarket/drops game.
• Prompting without constraints. Give it length, style and "exclude anything that sounds like a drug name/bank name", or you get mush.

Example run (prompt: "fintech + AI agents, brandable, ≤10 letters, .com only, available"): Bancello.com, Spendril.com, Tillyr.com, AgentWisp.com, AgentMox.com, ClaimPilotry.com, all unregistered at time of posting. I'd reg one or two of those, which is about the normal hit rate.

The same workflow works with any bulk checker plus any LLM if you'd rather not use ours. What I want to know is what investors would actually want an assistant to do: auction filtering? Expiring-list triage? Price checks against comps? Tell me what's missing and I'll answer questions here.

Registrars already show live availability, but you rarely see the name's history next to it: whether there was a site, any spam, when it dropped. And it'd be good to know which databases the trademark check runs against