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We show exact matches, close matches, manual links, and incomplete checks separately.

Incomplete checks never count as clean. They lower coverage instead. There are 62 research sources in NameVetta. A Quick Check asks 53 of them; Deep Research asks all 62, including the 9 that only earn their cost on a deeper look. Of the catalog, 5 run only for relevant categories. 2 sources surface public matches without judging availability, and 2 are never automatic at all. A source that did not run is reported as not run.

How the score works

The score combines domains, code namespaces, app stores, social handles, and web results. It does not cover trademarks.

A direct, same-industry exact match can cap the score. A clean-looking average never overrides evidence that strong.

See weights and scoring details

Sources are grouped, each group gets a weight, and the weight depends on what you’re naming. A crowded npm namespace matters more for a developer tool than for a restaurant.

GroupSoftware / SaaSRestaurant / food
Domains2222
Web & business presence3444
GitHub14–
Developer packages14–
App Store32
Google Play2–
YouTube45
Social identity727

Two of the twelve categories shown. The rest, and the other 2 examples, are on a wider screen.

A group’s subscore only counts once at least one of its sources produced a usable answer, and weights renormalize across the groups that did. A Quick Check isn’t punished for running fewer sources than a Deep Check; the gap is reported through coverage instead.

Coverage and source reliability

Coverage is how much of the intended research actually completed, weighted the same way the score is. It sits beside the score, always, never inside it. A high score with 40% coverage means “looks fine, but we only checked part of it,” and the report says exactly that.

Confidence on a single source is ceiling × health × freshness. The ceiling is the most a source can ever report and is set per source; health tracks recent reliability, so one that keeps getting rate-limited loses confidence automatically rather than staying trusted until somebody notices; freshness discounts a cached answer against a fresh one.

Every source and its ceiling62 sources
  • About.me

    85ceiling
    Group
    Social identity
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Anaconda

    85ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • App Store

    75ceiling
    Group
    App Store
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    18/min, documented by the provider

  • Arch User Repository

    90ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Some categories
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Behance

    85ceiling
    Group
    Social identity
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Bitbucket

    85ceiling
    Group
    Social identity
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Bluesky

    90ceiling
    Group
    Social identity
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    60/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Chocolatey

    85ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • CocoaPods

    85ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Codeberg

    85ceiling
    Group
    Social identity
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Companies House (UK)

    95ceiling
    Group
    Web & business presence
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Deep Research
    Cost
    Free

    60/min, documented by the provider

  • CPAN

    85ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • CRAN (R)

    90ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • crates.io

    95ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    55/min, documented by the provider

  • DailyMotion

    85ceiling
    Group
    Social identity
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Deno

    85ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Docker Hub

    95ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    60/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Domains

    95ceiling
    Group
    Domains
    Basis
    Open protocol
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    60/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Dribbble

    85ceiling
    Group
    Social identity
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • F-Droid

    85ceiling
    Group
    App Store
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Firefox Add-ons

    90ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Flathub

    75ceiling
    Group
    App Store
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    60/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Flickr

    85ceiling
    Group
    Social identity
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • French company register

    95ceiling
    Group
    Web & business presence
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Deep Research
    Cost
    Free

    60/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • GitHub

    95ceiling
    Group
    GitHub
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    50/min, documented by the provider

  • Global LEI register

    90ceiling
    Group
    Web & business presence
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Deep Research
    Cost
    Free

    60/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Go Modules

    70ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Google Play

    50ceiling
    Group
    Google Play
    Basis
    Search index
    Runs
    Some categories
    Cost
    Free, metered

    20/min, documented by the provider

  • Gravatar

    85ceiling
    Group
    Social identity
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Hackage

    85ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Hacker News

    85ceiling
    Group
    Social identity
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Hex (Elixir)

    90ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Homebrew

    95ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    60/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Hugging Face

    50ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Some categories
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • itch.io

    75ceiling
    Group
    App Store
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Linktree

    85ceiling
    Group
    Social identity
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Local business (OpenStreetMap)

    75ceiling
    Group
    Web & business presence
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Deep Research
    Cost
    Free

    55/min, documented by the provider

  • Maven Central

    85ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Modrinth

    50ceiling
    Group
    App Store
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Some categories
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • npm

    95ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    60/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • NuGet

    95ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    60/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Packagist (PHP)

    85ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Patreon

    85ceiling
    Group
    Social identity
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • pub.dev

    85ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • PyPI

    95ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    60/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Roblox

    90ceiling
    Group
    Social identity
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Some categories
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • RubyGems

    95ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    60/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • SEC EDGAR

    95ceiling
    Group
    Web & business presence
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Deep Research
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, documented by the provider

  • Slack

    30ceiling
    Group
    Social identity
    Basis
    Manual only
    Runs
    Never automatic
    Cost
    Free

    No self-imposed limit

  • Snap Store

    85ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Social handles (checked)

    75ceiling
    Group
    Social identity
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Social identity

    30ceiling
    Group
    Social identity
    Basis
    Manual only
    Runs
    Never automatic
    Cost
    Free

    No self-imposed limit

  • SoundCloud

    85ceiling
    Group
    Social identity
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Steam

    80ceiling
    Group
    App Store
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Terraform Registry

    85ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Vimeo

    85ceiling
    Group
    Social identity
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • VS Code Marketplace

    85ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • Web presence

    50ceiling
    Group
    Web & business presence
    Basis
    Search index
    Runs
    Deep Research
    Cost
    Free, metered

    20/min, documented by the provider

  • Wikidata

    75ceiling
    Group
    Web & business presence
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Deep Research
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • WordPress Plugins

    85ceiling
    Group
    Developer packages
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • X / Twitter

    70ceiling
    Group
    Social identity
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    30/min, a courtesy ceiling we set ourselves

  • YouTube

    95ceiling
    Group
    YouTube
    Basis
    Official API
    Runs
    Every search
    Cost
    Free

    60/min, documented by the provider

The handful of social platforms still checked by hand carry the lowest ceiling on that list on purpose. An unauthenticated profile fetch can return a login wall or a soft 404 that reads as “handle is free” when it means nothing of the kind, and that false green check is the exact failure this product exists to avoid. Nothing here scrapes: a source declaring that posture fails a test before it can ship.

What we left out, and why

F-Droid’s index. Its only structured endpoint is the full repository index, about 56 MB, three times larger than the Homebrew index we already judged too big to fetch per scan. There is no lighter search API, so it stays out rather than being forced in.

A US company register. SEC EDGAR covers SEC registrants only, not US companies generally, and no free general-purpose US register exists the way Companies House does for the UK. This is a real gap, not a hidden one. It is why a US business name leans more heavily on domain and web evidence than a UK one does.

Trademarks are a separate job

Digital research only. Trademark and legal clearance are not included.

No automated trademark research runs today. Trademark Assist generates spelling, confusable and phonetic variants, suggests likely Nice classes with reasoning, and links to the official free registries (USPTO, TMview, WIPO) with per-registry instructions. You search, and you record what you found.

Screening status is tracked separately from the score and is never worded to sound like clearance, even when every jurisdiction comes back clean. Automated search is a real possibility later, behind an extension point that exists today so it can be added without restructuring anything, but it needs real approvals first.

See any name check for the full report format, or source status for how each source has actually been behaving.