Thanks to the feedback from one of our visitors, we have located and corrected two problems.
First, orders that contained accented characters were sometimes being sent out incomplete. We modified our code to work around this issue, so orders should now always contain the full amount of requested identities.
Second, we weren’t properly escaping single quotes for the occupation field. This has been corrected for all of the output formats.
A dutch name set is now available on the homepage and in bulk orders.
As part of our efforts to provide a useful name set for every country we support, an Australian name set is now available on the homepage and in bulk orders.
As of today we are licensing all of our identity content (both on the homepage and in bulk orders) under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. This allows all of our visitors, regardless of where they live, to utilize our fake names in their personal or commercial applications at no cost and with minimal hassle.
Please note that this license only covers the identity information. The license does not entitle you to copy any other portion of our website. Additionally, our utilities on the Free Tools page may be under a difference license.
For full licensing information, please visit our License Agreement page.
Thanks to recent improvements in our name generator, we can now offer 10,000,000 name orders on DVD for only $25!
These aren’t the old, pre-generated names we’ve been able to offer in the past. Each order is custom generated based on your criteria, burned to a CD, and shipped to your address via USPS Priority Mail.
Head over to the Order in Bulk page to place an order.
We’ve added anglicized Arabic names to the Fake Name Generator. We don’t know anyone who is familiar with Arabic names, so we are guessing at how things should look based on various Wikipedia articles.
Arabic names are also available in bulk orders on the “Order in Bulk” page.
We’ve added 3 more database output formats:
We were going to add Teradata, but their installer is horribly clunky, several of the installs failed, and it requires outdated versions of several pieces of software (such as the .NET Framework) in order to work. If someone actually wants it, I’ll put the time into making it work.
We’ve added PostgreSQL, Oracle and Informix to our list of supported bulk order formats. We now support 5 database formats:
Please let us know if you run into any problems using any of our bulk order formats!
On an unrelated note, we are now serving static content from a cookie-less domain. This should make all pages load faster.
We’ve also corrected some display problems for IE6 and IE7. In a perfect world, these browsers wouldn’t exist, but until then we’re willing to put forth a little effort to make the Fake Name Generator usable in them.
We’ve updated our bulk order code to include occupations.
We are updating our free 1,000,000 name download file to include occupations, too. This should be done sometime tonight or early tomorrow. The new file is up.
Please let us know if you run into any problems with the bulk orders, or if we can provide them in a different format that will be more useful to you!
We’ve added two new national identification numbers to the Fake Name Generator:
We’ll be releasing generation and validation code in PHP and JavaScript for these identification numbers shortly.