Dominion is a library to extract information from a domain name.

We're basically interested in two particulars:

• The de facto TLD: this is the part of the domain a NIC would be responsible for. It may be an honest-to-god TLD, or a ccTLD, and more importantly, a ccSLD.

• The base domain: That is the domain that is registered with the NIC, clear of any subdomains.

To resolve this we rely on the Mozilla Foundation's Public Suffix List, which can be found at http://publicsuffix.org/list/.

See http://publicsuffix.org/ to learn more.

A copy of the list file is provided with this library in var/tlds.dat, and loaded automatically when you require 'dominion'.

require 'dominion'

d = Dominion::DomainName.new(".name")
d.tld?  # => true
d.tld   # => "name"
d.base  # => "name"

d = Dominion::DomainName.new("foo.bar.co.uk")
d.tld?  # => false
d.tld   # => "co.uk"
d.base  # => "bar.co.uk"

Copyright © 2010 Caio Chassot
Released under the MIT license
http://github.com/kch/dominion