| Re: extracting the root domain from a URL [message #171648 is a reply to message #171644] |
Fri, 14 January 2011 07:51   |
Luuk
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On 14-01-11 00:26, Mike wrote:
> I thought .com, .asia, etc. was the "TLD". What would you call the
> 'site.com' or 'site.co.uk' portion of the url? Regardless of the
> name, can you suggest an effective and accurate way to extract it?
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> In the domain names that use an extra part of the name (e.g.,
> 'site.com.tw' or 'site.co.uk'), I've only ever seen 'com' and 'co'
> used that way. I guess I could check if that center part is 'com' or
> 'co' rather than checking to see if it's strlen() > 3. Though, I'm
> not sure if that's all folks are using. I wonder if there are any
> published conventions for it?
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> Mike
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All TLD names are listed here:
http://www.icann.org/en/registries/top-level-domains.htm
For site.co.uk, the tld-name listed is .uk
read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.uk which explains why its not .gb and
why co.uk is used...
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Luuk
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