diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index d38ad69..ea8dfee 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ linkify = "*"
 log = "0.4"
 pretty_env_logger = "0.4"
 pulldown-cmark = "0.7.2"
-regex = "1.3.9"
+regex = "*"
 serde_json = "1.0.56"
 url = "2.1.1"
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 34a25eb..da317b9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,10 +22,10 @@ lychee can...
 - handle gzip compression
 - fake user agents (required for some firewalls)
 - skip non-links like anchors or relative URLs
+- exclude some websites with regular expressions
 - SOON: automatically retry and backoff
 - SOON: optionally ignore SSL certificate errors
 - SOON: optionally handle redirects
-- SOON: exclude some websites with regular expressions
 
 ## How?
 
diff --git a/src/checker.rs b/src/checker.rs
index c186b74..852f01d 100644
--- a/src/checker.rs
+++ b/src/checker.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 use anyhow::{Context, Result};
 use github_rs::client::{Executor, Github};
 use github_rs::StatusCode;
-use regex::Regex;
+use regex::{Regex, RegexSet};
 use reqwest::header::{self, HeaderValue};
 use serde_json::Value;
 use url::Url;
@@ -11,12 +11,13 @@ use url::Url;
 pub(crate) struct Checker {
     reqwest_client: reqwest::Client,
     gh_client: Github,
+    excludes: RegexSet,
     verbose: bool,
 }
 
 impl Checker {
     /// Creates a new link checker
-    pub fn try_new(token: String, verbose: bool) -> Result<Self> {
+    pub fn try_new(token: String, excludes: RegexSet, verbose: bool) -> Result<Self> {
         let mut headers = header::HeaderMap::new();
         // Faking the user agent is necessary for some websites, unfortunately.
         // Otherwise we get a 403 from the firewall (e.g. Sucuri/Cloudproxy on ldra.com).
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ impl Checker {
         Ok(Checker {
             reqwest_client,
             gh_client,
+            excludes,
             verbose,
         })
     }
@@ -89,6 +91,12 @@ impl Checker {
     }
 
     pub async fn check(&self, url: &Url) -> bool {
+        // TODO: Indicate that the URL was skipped in the return value.
+        // (Perhaps we want to return an enum value here: Status::Skipped)
+        if self.excludes.is_match(url.as_str()) {
+            return true;
+        }
+
         let ret = self.check_real(&url).await;
         match ret {
             true => {
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index b12afe1..b4002a5 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 extern crate log;
 
 use anyhow::Result;
+use regex::RegexSet;
 use std::env;
 use std::fs;
 
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@ struct LycheeOptions {
 
     // Accumulate all exclusions in a vector
     #[options(help = "Exclude URLs from checking (supports regex)")]
-    excludes: Vec<String>,
+    exclude: Vec<String>,
 }
 
 #[tokio::main]
@@ -36,7 +37,9 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
 
     let opts = LycheeOptions::parse_args_default_or_exit();
 
-    let checker = Checker::try_new(env::var("GITHUB_TOKEN")?, opts.verbose)?;
+    let excludes = RegexSet::new(opts.exclude).unwrap();
+
+    let checker = Checker::try_new(env::var("GITHUB_TOKEN")?, excludes, opts.verbose)?;
     let md = fs::read_to_string(opts.input.unwrap_or_else(|| "README.md".into()))?;
     let links = extract_links(&md);