We’ve added the hCard microformat to the Fake Name Generator. All names, addresses, phone numbers, websites, birthdays, and occupations are now properly marked up to be easily utilized by browsers capable of understanding the hCard microformat.

We’ve made a few changes since our last post:

• Licenses – We have added the GPLv3 license as an option for Fake Name Generator identities. This will allow you to include FNG names with GPL licensed software packages. For full information, please view the license page.
• Polish name set – Thanks to the advice of own of our visitors, we have updated the Polish name set to display more accurate names. We have changed name generation to display the correct -ka/-ki inflection in last names.
• Internationalization – We have added limited Chinese and German translations of the home page. We are looking for individuals willing to help us add more accurate language translations.

You may have noticed a few glitches on the website over the past few days. We are working hard on providing translations of the Fake Name Generator, including Chinese, and accidentally introduced a few bugs in the process. We are pretty sure we have them all squashed, but please let us know if you run into any problems.

For a sneak peak of our Chinese page, visit http://zh.fakenamegenerator.com

(Please note that we don’t speak Chinese, so several of our translations are probably less than optimal. If you speak Chinese and can give us some pointers, please shoot us a note. Thanks!)

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:

• SQLite (tested with SQLite 3.6.16)
• IBM DB2 (tested with DB2 Express-C 9.7)

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.