Terms of Service
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Version 2026-10-v4,
in force since
27 October 2026.
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DNS Lister - Terms of Service
Last updated: 27 October 2026
1. WHAT THIS SERVICE IS
DNS Lister helps you come up with domain name ideas and check whether
they appear to be available to register. It generates candidate names
from word lists, checks them against public DNS and RDAP sources, and
scores them so you can compare them.
DNS Lister does not sell, register, transfer, or manage domain names. When
you decide to register a name, you do that with a registrar, under that
registrar's own terms. We are not a party to that transaction.
2. AVAILABILITY INFORMATION IS NOT A GUARANTEE
Please read this section carefully, because it is the one most likely to
matter to you.
Availability results are our best effort, not a promise. They come from
public DNS and RDAP lookups, and results are cached for a period to keep
the service fast and to avoid overloading the sources we query. This means
a name shown as available may already be taken, may be reserved, may be a
premium name with a higher price, or may become unavailable between the
moment we check and the moment you try to register it.
You must confirm availability and price with a registrar before relying on
it. Do not make a purchase, business, or branding decision on the basis of
what this site shows you without checking first.
3. YOUR ACCOUNT
You need an account for some features. You are responsible for keeping
your password secure and for activity that happens under your account.
Tell us promptly if you believe someone else is using it.
Give us an email address you can actually receive mail at. We use it for
things like password resets and confirming your address. We may also send
occasional product news, but only if you have opted in, and you can change
that at any time in Settings.
4. ACCEPTABLE USE
Use the service in a way that does not spoil it for anyone else.
Specifically, do not: automate requests beyond what the interface and any
published rate limits allow; attempt to scrape the site wholesale; try to
gain access to accounts, data, or systems that are not yours; use the
service to plan or carry out anything unlawful; or deliberately overload
the checking infrastructure.
We may apply rate limits, and may suspend or close an account that is
damaging the service for others.
5. YOUR CONTENT
Word lists, favorites, notes, and searches you create remain yours. You
keep ownership of them.
You grant us only the permission we need to operate the service: to store
your content, process it to produce results for you, and back it up. We do
not claim ownership, and we do not sell it.
If you mark something as public or share it deliberately, other people
will be able to see it. Content you have not shared stays private to your
account.
6. PREMIUM ACCESS
Some features require Premium. Premium is sold as a one-year term at the
price shown on the Premium page when you pay. It is a single payment: we do
not keep a card on file and the term does not renew automatically. When it
ends, your account returns to the free plan unless you choose to extend it,
and the content you created stays yours.
Accounts that were granted lifetime Premium before 27 October 2026 keep it
for as long as the service continues to operate. That does not mean the
service is guaranteed to operate forever, and no one can honestly promise
that.
If we ever have to shut the service down, we will give reasonable notice
and a way to export your own data.
7. TRADEMARKS ARE YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
A domain name being technically available does not mean you are free to
use it. A name may be someone else's trademark, or otherwise legally
restricted, in your country or elsewhere.
We do not check trademarks, and generating a name is not advice that you
may use it. Doing that research is your responsibility before you build a
brand on a name.
If you are a rights holder and want a term excluded from what we generate,
see the Trademark and Piracy Opt-Out page.
8. PRIVACY AND DATA
How we collect, use, share and keep personal information is described in
our Privacy Policy at /privacy. We do not sell your personal data.
9. NO WARRANTY
The service is provided as is and as available. We do not warrant that it
will be uninterrupted, error free, or that any result it produces is
accurate or complete. See section 2 in particular.
10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or
consequential loss, for lost profits or business, or for a domain name you
did not manage to register.
Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you have
paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or to a nominal amount if
you have paid us nothing.
Nothing here is intended to exclude liability that cannot lawfully be
excluded.
11. CHANGES TO THESE TERMS
We may update these terms. When we do, we publish a new version rather
than editing the old one, and we keep a record of which version you agreed
to and when. The current version is always shown at /terms.
If a change is significant, we will ask you to agree again before you
carry on using the service.
12. ENDING YOUR ACCOUNT
You can stop using the service at any time, and you can delete your
account yourself from the Settings page. The Privacy Policy explains what
deleting it removes.
We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, or where we
are required to.
13. CONTACT AND GOVERNING LAW
Questions about these terms: use the Contact page.
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, United
States, and the courts of that state will have jurisdiction over any
dispute.
Superseded versions are kept, not deleted. If you have an account, the version you agreed to and the date you agreed to it are recorded against it.
How we handle personal information is set out in our Privacy Policy.