| Re: extracting the root domain from a URL [message #171698 is a reply to message #171668] |
Sun, 16 January 2011 13:11   |
Captain Paralytic
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On Jan 14, 11:59 pm, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedE...@web.de>
wrote:
> Captain Paralytic wrote:
>> On Jan 13, 11:26 pm, Mike <mpea...@gmail.com> 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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>> It is and it is also the root. It may not be the organisation root,
>> but it is the domain root.
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>> […]
>> http://www.answers.com/topic/root-domain
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> I suggest you re-read that (correct) answer you are referring to as it
> proves you wrong.
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> PointedEars
Here we go again! No it doesn't. There are 2 definitions there and
only the second one refers to the internet. That definition quite
clearly states: "The starting point of the top level domain structure
on the Internet. It is the root, or entry point, to
the .com, .org, .net, etc. domains."
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