Domain Extractor

Domain Extractor takes a list of URLs and gives you back the domains. That sounds trivial until you have three thousand links and need to know how many distinct sites they come from, which is the question that actually matters when you are looking at a backlink export.

You can keep the full hostname, which treats blog.example.com and shop.example.com as different, or reduce to the root domain, which treats them as the same site. The root-domain mode understands multi-part public suffixes such as .co.uk and .com.au, so example.co.uk is not mistakenly shortened to co.uk.

The output can be deduplicated and sorted, and a count column shows how many URLs in your list pointed at each domain. That turns a flat list of links into a ranked picture of where they actually come from.

• Full hostname or root domain extraction
• Handles multi-part suffixes such as .co.uk correctly
• Optional removal of the www prefix
• Deduplicate and sort
• Count of how many URLs point at each domain
• Reports lines that were not valid URLs
• Copy as a list or download as CSV

The domain extractor is used by writers, developers, students, marketers and anyone else who needs the job done once without installing software. Common cases include:

• Counting referring domains in a backlink export
• Reducing a long link list to the sites behind it
• Building a list of domains to contact for outreach
• Checking which sites a page links out to most
• Preparing a domain allow or block list