diff --git a/licenses.txt b/licenses.txt
index 0b78eaa5543a705ac8380756874d1f7e7634a8d0..b5c0749538285657740beb932eb0b6041ea1d401 100644
--- a/licenses.txt
+++ b/licenses.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ MPL-2.0:
 - This
 - git https://github.com/nektro/zig-nfs
 - git https://github.com/nektro/zig-nio
+- git https://github.com/nektro/zig-unicode-idna
+- git https://github.com/nektro/zig-whatwg-url
 
 MIT:
 = https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT
@@ -10,6 +12,7 @@ MIT:
 - git https://github.com/nektro/zig-extras
 - git https://github.com/nektro/zig-sys-linux
 - git https://github.com/nektro/zig-time
+- git https://github.com/nektro/zig-unicode-ucd
 
 Unspecified:
 - system_lib c
diff --git a/net.zig b/net.zig
index 326077278cba3e5eaa4346b251dc18f17f50518e..09bd81caffc4db78d019ac9e15587735a099770f 100644
--- a/net.zig
+++ b/net.zig
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ const builtin = @import("builtin");
 const nio = @import("nio");
 const nfs = @import("nfs");
 const time = @import("time");
+const url = @import("url");
 const sys_linux = @import("sys-linux");
 
 const os = builtin.target.os.tag;
@@ -27,6 +28,27 @@ pub const Address = extern union {
         return .{ .in6 = Ip6Address.init(addr, hport) };
     }
 
+    pub fn fromUrl(u: *const url.URL, allocator: std.mem.Allocator) !Address {
+        return switch (u.hostFancy()) {
+            .unset => unreachable,
+            .ipv4 => |int| .initIp4(@bitCast(int), u.portFancy().?),
+            .ipv6 => |int| .initIp6(@bitCast(int), u.portFancy().?),
+            .name => |hostname| blk: {
+                const hostnamez = try allocator.dupeZ(u8, hostname);
+                defer allocator.free(hostnamez);
+                const portz = try std.fmt.allocPrintZ(allocator, "{d}", .{u.portFancy().?});
+                defer allocator.free(portz);
+                const gai = try getaddrinfo(hostnamez, portz, null);
+                defer freeaddrinfo(gai);
+                break :blk switch (gai.addr.?.family) {
+                    .INET => .{ .in = .{ .sa = @as(*Ip4Address.SockAddr, @ptrCast(@alignCast(gai.addr.?))).* } },
+                    .INET6 => .{ .in6 = .{ .sa = @as(*Ip6Address.SockAddr, @ptrCast(@alignCast(gai.addr.?))).* } },
+                    else => @panic("TODO"),
+                };
+            },
+        };
+    }
+
     pub fn size(adr: Address) sys.socklen_t {
         return switch (adr.any.family) {
             .INET => @sizeOf(sys.struct_sockaddr_in),
diff --git a/zigmod.yml b/zigmod.yml
index 749b06d5fbf34e3d3d99bab31e9e30238f16a370..1a87a86268e26e966c434277b9dee0966025bf81 100644
--- a/zigmod.yml
+++ b/zigmod.yml
@@ -8,5 +8,6 @@ dependencies:
   - src: git https://github.com/nektro/zig-sys-linux
   - src: git https://github.com/nektro/zig-nfs
   - src: git https://github.com/nektro/zig-time
+  - src: git https://github.com/nektro/zig-whatwg-url
 root_dependencies:
   - src: git https://github.com/nektro/zig-expect