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22 lines
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A "public suffix" is a domain name under which Internet users can
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directly register own names.
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Browsers and other web clients can use it to
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* avoid privacy-leaking "supercookies"
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* avoid privacy-leaking "super domain" certificates
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(see post from Jeffry Walton)
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* domain highlighting (parts of the domain) in a user interface
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* sorting domain lists by site
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libpsl ...
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* has built-in PSL data for fast access
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* allows to load PSL data from files
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* checks if a given domain is a "public suffix"
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* provides immediate cookie domain verification
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* finds the longest public part of a given domain
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* finds the shortest private part of a given domain
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* works with international domains (UTF-8 and IDNA2008 Punycode)
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* is thread-safe
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* handles IDNA2008 UTS#46
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