Convert company names to domains

Lead Finder asks for a company domain, not a company name, and it will not guess one for you. This is the article about why, and about where to get the domain when you only have the name.

Why we do not guess

“Acme Corporation” could be acme.com, acmecorp.com, acme.co.uk, or a name somebody else owns entirely. A wrong domain does not fail loudly: it produces a plausible address at the wrong company, which passes a syntax check, sometimes even passes a mail-server check, and then goes into a sequence. Every answer after a wrong domain is fiction, and you cannot tell by looking at it.

So the field is a domain, and a guess is your decision to make rather than ours to make quietly.

Where to get the domain

• You already have their website in most lists. The domain is the website.
• Local Leads returns the business's own site alongside the listing, so a search there gives you name and domain together.
• Daily New Domains is domains first — the company data is attached to them rather than the other way round.
• Contact Extractor takes a site you already know and pulls what it publishes, which is often faster than finding one person at a time.

Paste a list once you have them

Lead Finder accepts First, Last, domain one per line. Each line costs one lookup, charged only when it produces an answer, and they run a few at a time on purpose — hammering a mail server is how a sending reputation gets ruined, for everyone using it.