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Heine Pedersen commented on VALIDATOR-305:
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Hi, according to http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-strings
which says "The expansion of generic Top-Level Domains (e.g. .COM, .ORG, .NET)
in the Domain Name System is underway. Over 1,300 new names or "strings" could
become available in the next few years.".
This also - in my mind - suggests that the solution of updating an array in the
code with the new gTLDs is poor. Then users of the API needs to update the
dependency constantly, and always will run into issues with domains being
reported as invalid, even though they are actually valid.
I can think of a couple of (possible better) alternatives.
1. Let the list of valid gTLDs be in a property file - then it would be enough
just updating that, instead of updating the entire API (which causes regression
testing)
2. Do a more generic validation (eg. must contain letters - I'll assume ICANN
has a specification of which new gTLDs can be accepted)
3. Allow this to be updated automatically by retrieving a list from somewhere,
and parse that - has some issues with the necessity of making a connection to
the Internet - so probably not a good solution.
I really would hope that this gets solved in the right way, unfortunately I do
not have any experience in contributing to Apache projects, so it seems quite a
big hurdle to try and implement this myself.
Cheers, Heine
> Some TLDs are missing from DomainValidator
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>
> Key: VALIDATOR-305
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VALIDATOR-305
> Project: Commons Validator
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Routines
> Affects Versions: 1.4.0 Release
> Reporter: Nick Burch
> Attachments: DomainValidator.java.patch
>
>
> As reported on list
> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg29436.html>,
> DomainValidator is missing some of the new TLDs
> The full list is available from
> <http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt>
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