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6 chars·.news
tight, startup-grade brand feel, with smooth phonetics
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Sign up free to unlock →| Length | 6 |
| TLD | .news |
| Keyword category | none |
| Commercial intent | none |
| Wayback snapshots | 0 |
| Brandable combo | yes |
| Spam pattern | no |
| Saturated suffix | none |
Because "faking" is a recognizable word, faking.news benefits from both type-in traffic and search-intent alignment. Short names like this (6 chars) tend to be the sweet spot for SaaS brandability — memorable without hitting the premium-tax of 3-4 letter names. The phonetics are balanced between vowels and consonants — typical for a pronounceable English-style name. .news is a content-oriented TLD, which narrows the buyer pool but works well for publishers and information products. With zero Wayback coverage, the domain's prior history is effectively a clean slate from a content perspective. Weak DQS (36/100) means the pipeline saw more penalty than positive signal. These names occasionally find a buyer but the base rate is low. Redemption-period status means the owner has about 23 days left to reclaim the name. Any outside party can only wait and watch. Not a recommended target. The data here is published for transparency rather than as a buy signal.
Web-presence signal
None observed
No meaningful Wayback record. Backlink research rarely pays off here.
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1
drop recorded so far
Apr 20, 2026
first observed
Apr 20, 2026
last observed
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No Wayback Machine snapshots found for faking.news.