New businesses that don't have a website yet
How do I find newly formed companies that need a website? Most new companies have no website when they are formed, and a large share of the ones that will trade still have none a month later. Salenovo checks every new company's name as a domain and crawls the ones that resolve, so it knows which likely traders have no site, a parked page, or a placeholder — the ones who need you — and which already have one.
What you get
The gap is the lead
Of the 14,543 companies formed last week, 10,386 of the 14,542 checked so far have no resolving domain at all. Filter to the ones likely to trade and you have a list of businesses that will need a site, a logo and a Google listing within weeks.
Placeholder and parked pages too
A 'coming soon' page or a registrar's parking page is a business that has bought the domain and stalled. We detect both.
Sector and location
A café in Colchester, a builder in Bolton: filter by what they do and where, and write something that shows you looked.
Re-checked as they grow
Companies are re-checked at 30, 90 and 180 days, so you see the ones that still have nothing after the first rush.
What one build is worth
A first website and brand for a new business is £1,500–£5,000 of work, then hosting, a Google Business listing and the first campaign every month after. One build a quarter pays for the list many times over.
A worked example: Chelmsford
Chelmsford last week: 41 incorporated, about 16 expected to trade; over the last 8 weeks, only 7 of 251 new companies have a verified website — the rest are the opportunity. See the Chelmsford page, see a real week's list, or compare any area.
Against what you do today
| Raw register dump | Companies House by hand | Salenovo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What arrives | Every incorporation; no idea who has a site | Names, then check each domain yourself | Likely traders with 'no site / parked / placeholder / live' already established |
| Time to qualify | Minutes per company | Minutes per company | Done before the list reaches you |
| When you hear | Daily dump | Ad hoc | Weekly, and at 30/90/180 days |
Business-to-business email to a limited company or LLP is permitted under PECR without prior consent, provided you say who you are and offer an opt-out. Every row says where the address came from. No director names, no home addresses.
Your first week
- Monday: the digest arrives, ranked A to E, with 'no website yet', 'parked' or 'placeholder' already established for each company.
- Take the A and B operating businesses with nothing live — the ones that will need a site within weeks.
- Search the name yourself for a minute so your first line says what you found (nothing; a Facebook page; a parked domain).
- Email the generic mailbox where there is one, or write to the premises, with one offer: a one-page site by a date at a price.
- Log replies; the same companies are re-checked at 30, 90 and 180 days, so you also see which ones still have nothing.
Two short messages that work — an email and a letter, with the one line that matters for your trade — are on the templates page.
Questions
How do you know a new company has no website?
We check the company's name as a .co.uk, .com and .uk domain. If none resolves, it has no name-matching site. If one resolves we fetch it and classify it as live, placeholder, parked or someone else's business. A company can of course have a site under another name; the check is conservative.
What share of new companies have a website in their first weeks?
Around 7% of new companies in our pilot areas had a live, verified website when checked in their first months. The share rises as they age, which is why we re-check.
Method and accuracy — how the numbers are made: incorporations from the Companies House public register, mapped to councils with the ONS Postcode Directory; "expected to trade" from the historical outcomes of 447,000 companies formed in 2022 and 2024, by formation address and sector; websites verified by fetching the company's name-matching domain and checking it against the company; food premises from the Food Standards Agency's register. All Open Government Licence. Every row in the paid list carries its source and date.
Other uses: Accountants & bookkeepers · Insurance brokers · Hospitality & food-service suppliers · Lenders, brokers & fintech · Commercial property & serviced offices · B2B suppliers: telecoms, payroll, EPOS, merchant services · Councils, LEPs & business improvement districts · Business owners