What can I see of the domain name before I buy?

What the mask shows

Each listing renders the name with most characters replaced by a block glyph. Several things are deliberately left visible:

• True length: the mask is always exactly as long as the real name, so a nine-character name looks like nine characters
• The first letter, always
• The last letter, or the whole final word when the name splits into two or more words, as in g▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓farms
• Hyphens, shown where they fall, so you can see the name's structure
• The extension, in full: .com, .org, .io and so on

Very short names reveal proportionally less, since there isn't enough room to mask a meaningful part of a four-letter word.

What that tells you

Enough to judge readability, which is the part a metric can't capture. You can tell a two-word compound from a random string, spot a hyphenated name before you buy it, and see whether the length suits what you're building. Word count is listed separately as a number.

What stays hidden

The middle of the name, and the exact Revised Score. Everything else on the listing is real, published data. See why the name is masked at all for the reasoning, and what metrics we verify for what you get instead.

When you see the whole thing

The full name is revealed once your order is fulfilled and the domain is in your account, typically within 24 hours of checkout.