NameAPI is a web API
to handle people's names
in your software.

News

29.08.2025

Database Expansion: Brazilian Portuguese Names

We’ve expanded our database to include a comprehensive set of Brazilian Portuguese names. This...


21.08.2025

Secondary Domain Added: api.name-api.com for Enhanced Redundancy

To further strengthen NameAPI’s reliability and provide uninterrupted service access, we are happy...


28.07.2025

Version 10.8.0 Released

Release of Optimaize PII Platform, version 10.8.0.


05.06.2025

Dictionary Update: Korean Names Added

We’ve expanded our database with an extensive set of Korean names. This update brings in 10,800...


05.05.2025

Dictionary Update: Greek Names Added

With over 25.500 Greek terms stored, our database now includes over 9,000 given names and 16,200...


   

Email Domain Type Classifier

       
DetectsClassifies the domain name of an email address as FREEMAIL, ORGANIZATION etc.
            
[email protected] uses a FREEMAIL domain.
[email protected] uses an ORGANIZATION domain.
            
Note that there is not always a clear line between domain types. Especially FREEMAIL and ISP are blurry; freemail providers often offer extended paid packages, while internet service providers sometimes often a basic free email account.    
               
(no example in the browser as of now)

   

Input

       
A syntactically valid email address.
An invalid input exception is thrown if the address does not look like an email address.
       

   

Output

       

Trash domains such as mailinator.com.

Freemail providers such as yahoo.com.

Internet service providers such as aol.com.

Businesses, universities etc. such as google.com.

Non-commercial private domains from individuals.

Reserved domain names serving as examples in documentation, such as example.com.

Unclassified as of now.