Recent Posts

Bulk Order Issue Fixed

March 23rd, 2010

We’ve been having issues with our mail server that has been delaying bulk orders from being sent. We’ve corrected this issue, so if you’ve been waiting for an order then it should be showing up in your inbox soon!

Mobile FNG

March 9th, 2010

We have launched an Android- and iPhone-friendly version of the Fake Name Generator. This mobile FNG will allow you to quickly and easily generate fake names on the go.

Not sure what to use the names for? Here are some helpful suggestions:

  • Give a fake phone number to the creepy guy that is trying to ask you out.
  • Give the annoying telemarketer “your” name, address, phone number, credit card number, and more.
  • Get a fake name to use for a character while playing games offline.

If you are using an Android or iPhone device, you will be automatically sent to the mobile site. Don’t worry, you can always click the “classic” link at the bottom of the page to switch back to the full version of the Fake Name Generator.

Phone Numbers for Switzerland

February 24th, 2010

We’ve added phone numbers for Switzerland.

These phone numbers are available on the homepage and in bulk orders.

Enjoy!

Phone Numbers for Spain

February 23rd, 2010

We have added phone number generation for Spain in response to a request from one of our visitors.

The phone numbers are a mix of mobile numbers and land line numbers. The land line number area code will match the province of the generated address.

Get a bulk order DVD for FREE!

February 9th, 2010

We have partnered with TrialPay to offer our 10,000,000 name bulk DVD to our visitors for free! Simply select TrialPay as your payment option while ordering, complete 1 offer, and your DVD will be mailed to you at no charge.

Visit our bulk order page for details.

Bulk order DVDs now available to Canada and Mexico

February 8th, 2010

We are now allowing 10,000,000 name bulk order DVDs to be shipped to Canada, Mexico, and the United States (except Virginia) for the still low price of $20 USD ($5 USD shipping and handling).

To order, visit our bulk order page.

Placeholder Image Generator

February 4th, 2010

We’ve created an easy to use placeholder image generator. Our generator helps you quickly create a perfect placeholder image, down to the pixel, with any foreground or background color you want. This is great for developers that need to create ad-sized placeholders for their templates or mock-ups.

Click here and check it out!

Speed Improvements

January 27th, 2010

We’ve been hard at work making the Fake Name Generator as fast as possible.

Here are a few of the things we’ve done:

  • Implemented Bad Behavior to prevent robots from accessing the site. This reduces load on the site so that pages can come up faster.
  • Moved images and CSS to a CDN. This means you’ll download the images from a server that is geographically near you instead of from our name generating server.
  • Optimized our CSS.
  • Optimized our name generator to do things smarter and faster.

Please let us know if you run into any problems!

Domain names in bulk orders

January 4th, 2010

One of our visitors requested that we make it possible to get website address in bulk orders. We think this is a great idea, so w have updated the bulk order page to allow you to have domain names included in your order.

Do you have any other suggestions?

UTF-8 fixed in bulk orders

December 4th, 2009

We’ve had an issue for a while where bulk orders with non-Latin characters would get cut off part way through. We’ve corrected this issue, and also added byte order marks to the beginning of generated bulk orders.