diff --git a/bin/new-service b/bin/new-service
index 6288ec7..e99ac7b 100755
--- a/bin/new-service
+++ b/bin/new-service
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ render_manifests() {
     ((PUBLIC)) && ud=$PUBLIC_DOMAIN
     sed -i "s/__APP__/$NAME/g; s/__API__/$API_APP/g; s/__DOMAIN__/$INGRESS_DOMAIN/g; s/__PUBLIC_DOMAIN__/$PUBLIC_DOMAIN/g; s/__UNLEASH_DOMAIN__/$ud/g" "$out"/*.yaml
   fi
-  ! grep -rn '__[A-Z_]*__' "$out" || die "unrendered placeholder left in manifests"
+  ! grep -rnE '__(APP|API|NS|DOMAIN|PUBLIC_DOMAIN|UNLEASH_DOMAIN|PUBLIC_BEGIN|PUBLIC_END)__' "$out" || die "unrendered placeholder left in manifests"
   kustomize_build "$out" >/dev/null || die "kustomize build of rendered manifests failed"
 }