diff --git a/linkcheck/htmlutil/linkname.py b/linkcheck/htmlutil/linkname.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 9cb65dfa..00000000
--- a/linkcheck/htmlutil/linkname.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,71 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
-# Copyright (C) 2001-2014 Bastian Kleineidam
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
-# with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
-# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
-"""
-Parse names of title tags and link types.
-"""
-
-import re
-from .. import HtmlParser, strformat
-
-
-imgtag_re = re.compile(r"(?i)\s+alt\s*=\s*"+\
-                       r"""(?P<name>("[^"\n]*"|'[^'\n]*'|[^\s>]+))""")
-img_re = re.compile(r"""(?i)<\s*img\s+("[^"\n]*"|'[^'\n]*'|[^>])+>""")
-
-
-def endtag_re (tag):
-    """Return matcher for given end tag"""
-    return re.compile(r"(?i)</%s\s*>" % tag)
-
-a_end_search = endtag_re("a").search
-title_end_search = endtag_re("title").search
-
-
-def _unquote (txt):
-    """Resolve entities and remove markup from txt."""
-    return HtmlParser.resolve_entities(strformat.remove_markup(txt))
-
-
-def image_name (txt):
-    """Return the alt part of the first <img alt=""> tag in txt."""
-    mo = imgtag_re.search(txt)
-    if mo:
-        name = strformat.unquote(mo.group('name').strip())
-        return  _unquote(name)
-    return u''
-
-
-def href_name (txt):
-    """Return the name part of the first <a href="">name</a> link in txt."""
-    name = u""
-    endtag = a_end_search(txt)
-    if not endtag:
-        return name
-    name = txt[:endtag.start()]
-    if img_re.search(name):
-        return image_name(name)
-    return _unquote(name)
-
-
-def title_name (txt):
-    """Return the part of the first <title>name</title> in txt."""
-    name = u""
-    endtag = title_end_search(txt)
-    if not endtag:
-        return name
-    name = txt[:endtag.start()]
-    return _unquote(name)
diff --git a/linkcheck/htmlutil/linkparse.py b/linkcheck/htmlutil/linkparse.py
index f706e272..33aa4321 100644
--- a/linkcheck/htmlutil/linkparse.py
+++ b/linkcheck/htmlutil/linkparse.py
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ Find link tags in HTML text.
 
 import re
 from .. import strformat, log, LOG_CHECK, url as urlutil
-from . import linkname
 from builtins import str as str_text
 
 unquote = strformat.unquote
diff --git a/tests/test_linkname.py b/tests/test_linkname.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 191d0a10..00000000
--- a/tests/test_linkname.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
-# Copyright (C) 2004-2009 Bastian Kleineidam
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
-# with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
-# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
-"""
-Test linkname routines.
-"""
-
-import unittest
-from linkcheck.htmlutil import linkname
-
-
-class TestLinkname (unittest.TestCase):
-    """
-    Test href and image name parsing.
-    """
-
-    def image_name_test (self, txt, expected):
-        """
-        Helper function calling linkname.image_name().
-        """
-        self.assertEqual(linkname.image_name(txt), expected)
-
-    def href_name_test (self, txt, expected):
-        """
-        Helper function calling linkname.href_name().
-        """
-        self.assertEqual(linkname.href_name(txt), expected)
-
-    def test_image_name (self):
-        """
-        Test image name parsing.
-        """
-        self.image_name_test("<img src='' alt=''></a>", '')
-        self.image_name_test("<img src alt=abc></a>", 'abc')
-
-    def test_href_name (self):
-        """
-        Test href name parsing.
-        """
-        self.href_name_test("<b>guru guru</a>", 'guru guru')
-        self.href_name_test("a\njo</a>", "a\njo")
-        self.href_name_test("test<</a>", "test<")
-        self.href_name_test("test</</a>", "test</")
-        self.href_name_test("test</a</a>", "test</a")
-        self.href_name_test("test", "")
-        self.href_name_test("\n", "")
-        self.href_name_test("", "")
-        self.href_name_test('"</a>"foo', '"')
-        self.href_name_test("<img src='' alt=''></a>", '')
-        self.href_name_test("<img src alt=abc></a>", 'abc')