in reply to Finding short DNS names from long text

It sounds like you're asking for the "I'm feeling lucky" button from Google.

Why don't you grab a useragent module and give it a (w)hack?

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Re^2: Finding short DNS names from long text
by dwhite20899 (Friar) on Jul 12, 2009 at 20:40 UTC
    I did think of that as a "first whack" to winnow down a list for a person to review, or to find a substring in the URL that matches a whole word in the long text name.

    That may be the quickest way to get some results.