Privacy notice

What leaves your browser, what is kept, and for how long. Short, because there is not much of it.

The names you check

When you run a check, the reduced domain label — letters and digits only — is sent to our lookup service so it can query the public domain registries. That service does not record who asked. It keeps a cached copy of the registry's answer for a few hours, so that repeated checks of the same label do not hammer the registries; that cache holds the label and the availability result, and nothing about you.

Everything else the checker does — reducing the name, the dictation checks, the sensitive-word flags, building the register search links — happens in your browser. Those never leave your device.

What is stored in your browser

Four things, all of them in this browser's local storage on this device:

• Your most recent search, so you are not retyping it.
• Any candidates you add on the comparison page — the name as typed, its reduced label, and the registry result for each ending.
• Which checklist steps you have ticked.
• Your answers to the storage notice, and the light or dark preference.

Only pages served from this domain can read any of it. None of it travels to our servers, none of it reaches anyone else, and none of it follows you to another device or browser. Answering “Essential only” on the storage notice prevents all of it being written — the tool still works, it simply forgets between visits. Clearing your browser data removes it, and the comparison page has a Remove all of its own.

Server logs

Our hosting and the lookup service keep short-lived operational logs, which include IP addresses, in order to serve pages, apply rate limits and identify abuse. These are not used to build a profile of you and are not combined with anything else.

Advertising and cookies

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Ads Settings, or opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info.

Age

This is a tool for people forming businesses. It is not directed at children, collects nothing that would identify one, and has no reason to.

Your choices

• Decline browser storage using the notice, or clear it at any time in your browser settings.
• Use the site without running a check at all — every reference page works without one.
• Ask us what we hold. The honest answer is almost certainly nothing that identifies you, and we will say so specifically rather than generically.

Changes to this notice

The date at the foot of this page is the date this version took effect. Where something material changes — a measurement tool, an advertising partner, a new thing the lookup service retains — the wording here is updated ahead of the change rather than in its wake, so that the notice never lags the practice it describes.

Raising something

Questions about this notice, or about anything described on it, go to [email protected].

In force from 2026-09-27.