diff --git a/code/process-models/crawling-model/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/crawling/model/CrawledDocument.java b/code/process-models/crawling-model/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/crawling/model/CrawledDocument.java
index 94d13235..143c775b 100644
--- a/code/process-models/crawling-model/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/crawling/model/CrawledDocument.java
+++ b/code/process-models/crawling-model/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/crawling/model/CrawledDocument.java
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import lombok.AllArgsConstructor;
 import lombok.Builder;
 import lombok.ToString;
 import nu.marginalia.bigstring.BigString;
+import nu.marginalia.model.EdgeUrl;
 
 @Builder
 @AllArgsConstructor
@@ -35,4 +36,16 @@ public class CrawledDocument implements SerializableCrawlData {
         return SERIAL_IDENTIFIER;
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public String getDomain() {
+        if (url == null)
+            return null;
+
+        return EdgeUrl
+                .parse(url)
+                .map(EdgeUrl::getDomain)
+                .map(d -> d.domain)
+                .orElse(null);
+    }
+
 }
diff --git a/code/process-models/crawling-model/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/crawling/model/SerializableCrawlData.java b/code/process-models/crawling-model/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/crawling/model/SerializableCrawlData.java
index c9804d54..48b3f65d 100644
--- a/code/process-models/crawling-model/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/crawling/model/SerializableCrawlData.java
+++ b/code/process-models/crawling-model/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/crawling/model/SerializableCrawlData.java
@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@ package nu.marginalia.crawling.model;
 
 public interface SerializableCrawlData {
     String getSerialIdentifier();
+    String getDomain();
 }
diff --git a/code/processes/converting-process/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/converting/ConverterMain.java b/code/processes/converting-process/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/converting/ConverterMain.java
index fb919018..ebfb1bc2 100644
--- a/code/processes/converting-process/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/converting/ConverterMain.java
+++ b/code/processes/converting-process/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/converting/ConverterMain.java
@@ -138,10 +138,16 @@ public class ConverterMain {
             for (var domain : plan.crawlDataIterable(id -> !batchingWorkLog.isItemProcessed(id)))
             {
                 pool.submit(() -> {
-                    ProcessedDomain processed = processor.process(domain);
-                    converterWriter.accept(processed);
-
-                    heartbeat.setProgress(processedDomains.incrementAndGet() / (double) totalDomains);
+                    try {
+                        ProcessedDomain processed = processor.process(domain);
+                        converterWriter.accept(processed);
+                    }
+                    catch (Exception ex) {
+                        logger.info("Error in processing", ex);
+                    }
+                    finally {
+                        heartbeat.setProgress(processedDomains.incrementAndGet() / (double) totalDomains);
+                    }
                 });
             }
 
diff --git a/code/processes/converting-process/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/converting/processor/DomainProcessor.java b/code/processes/converting-process/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/converting/processor/DomainProcessor.java
index f9ae890c..00a05257 100644
--- a/code/processes/converting-process/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/converting/processor/DomainProcessor.java
+++ b/code/processes/converting-process/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/converting/processor/DomainProcessor.java
@@ -55,11 +55,21 @@ public class DomainProcessor {
         boolean cookies = false;
         String ip = "";
 
-        DomainLinks externalDomainLinks = anchorTagsSource.getAnchorTags(ret.domain);
+        DomainLinks externalDomainLinks = null;
 
         while (dataStream.hasNext()) {
             var data = dataStream.next();
 
+            // Do a lazy load of the external domain links since we don't know the domain
+            // until we see the first document
+            if (externalDomainLinks == null) {
+                var domain = data.getDomain();
+
+                if (domain != null) {
+                    externalDomainLinks = anchorTagsSource.getAnchorTags(domain);
+                }
+            }
+
             if (data instanceof CrawledDomain crawledDomain) {
                 ret.domain = new EdgeDomain(crawledDomain.domain);
                 ret.ip = crawledDomain.ip;
@@ -77,8 +87,15 @@ public class DomainProcessor {
                 try {
                     if (doc.url == null)
                         continue;
+
                     fixBadCanonicalTag(doc);
 
+                    // This case should never be reachable, as we should have initiated
+                    // the externalDomainLinks variable above if we made it past the
+                    // doc.url == null check; but we'll leave it here just in case
+                    // to make debugging easier if we break this.
+                    assert externalDomainLinks != null : "externalDomainLinks has not been initialized";
+
                     docs.add(documentProcessor.process(doc, externalDomainLinks));
                 }
                 catch (Exception ex) {