Re: Setting document.domain

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, James Graham wrote:
>> I think the algorithm for determining if a domain is in the public
>> suffix list should be specified in detail somewhere, although I guess
>> HTML 5 is likely not quite the right place since this may be used in
>> non-HTML contexts.
>
> I agree that it would be nice if there was some text on publicsuffix.org
> that gave some normative-like text I could hook into here.

I'm not sure if such an algorithm exists.  The list of
registry-controlled domains is some social artifact that changes
depending on decisions made by registrars in small island countries
and provinces in Japan.

Adam