Guided word association based domain name detection may be performed by obtaining an original domain name, constructing a feature space from a corpus of text, wherein each word appearing in the corpus is represented as a vector in the feature space, detecting whether a domain name registration exists for each combination of the original domain name and each of a plurality of seed words from the feature space, determining, for each seed word included in an existing domain name registration, a plurality of nearest neighbor candidate words, based on vector distance in the feature space, and repeating, for one or more repetitions, the detecting and the determining, wherein the plurality of nearest neighbor candidate words are utilized as the plurality of seed words.