diff --git a/checklinks b/checklinks
index 2f37c5a..a189022 100755
--- a/checklinks
+++ b/checklinks
@@ -5,25 +5,53 @@ RETRY=1
 RETRY_DELAY=10
 TIMEOUT=3 # seconds
 
+EXCLUDED_URLS="https?://(\
+localhost|\
+old.nabble.com|\
+news.gmane.org|\
+[0-9]+|\
+.+:[0-9]+|\
+example|\
+[^/]+.example|\
+host|\
+somehost|\
+nohost|\
+link|\
+acme.org|\
+foo|\
+application|\
+registry.npmjs.org|\
+apache.org/xml/features|\
+java.sun.com/xml/ns|\
+javax.xml.XMLConstants)"
+
 RED='\033[0;31m'
 GREEN='\033[0;32m'
 BLUE='\033[0;34m'
+GRAY='\033[1;34m'
 NC='\033[0m' # No Color
 
 [ ! -d "$1" ] && echo "'$1'  is not a directory" && exit 1
 
+echo "'$EXCLUDED_URLS'"
+
 # Links are processed in a random order to reduce the risk of being blacklisted and temporarily blocked
-for url in $(grep -RioEh 'https?://[^][{} "`<>),*$|\\]*[^][{} "`<>),*$|\\.:'"'"']' | grep -vE 'https?://(localhost|[0-9]+|.+:[0-9]+|example|host|somehost|nohost|link|acme.org|foo.com|application.com|[^/]+.example.com|registry.npmjs.org|apache.org/xml/features|java.sun.com/xml/ns|javax.xml.XMLConstants)' | sort | uniq | sort -R); do
-  # we could use --head, but it is not always supported...
-  status=$(curl -o /dev/null --silent --connect-timeout "$TIMEOUT" --retry $RETRY --retry-delay $RETRY_DELAY --user-agent "$USER_AGENT" --location --write-out '%{http_code}' "$url")
+for url in $(grep -RioEh 'https?://[^][{} "`<>),*$|\\]*[^][{} "`<>),*$|\\.:'"'"']' | sort | uniq | sort -R); do
+  if [[ "$url" =~ $EXCLUDED_URLS ]]; then
+    echo -e "${GRAY}$url (IGNORED)${NC}"
 
-  if [ "$status" = "200" ]; then
-    if [[ $url =~ "http://" ]]; then
-      echo -e "${BLUE}$url ($status)${NC}"
+  else
+    # we could use --head, but it is not always supported...
+    status=$(curl -o /dev/null --silent --connect-timeout "$TIMEOUT" --retry $RETRY --retry-delay $RETRY_DELAY --user-agent "$USER_AGENT" --location --write-out '%{http_code}' "$url")
+
+    if [ "$status" = "200" ]; then
+      if [[ $url =~ "http://" ]]; then
+        echo -e "${BLUE}$url ($status)${NC}"
+      else
+        echo -e "${GREEN}$url ($status)${NC}"
+      fi
     else
-      echo -e "${GREEN}$url ($status)${NC}"
+      echo -e "${RED}$url ($status)${NC}"
     fi
-  else
-    echo -e "${RED}$url ($status)${NC}"
   fi
 done