Parse domain from URL

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Hey guys,

I'm faced with an interesting problem, and wondering if there's an easy
solution.

I need to strip out a domain name from a URL, and ignore subdomains (like
www)

I can use parse_url to get the hostname. And my first thought was to take
the last 2 segments of the hostname to get the domain.  So if the URL is
http://www.example.com/
Then the domain is "example.com."   If the URL is http://example.org/ then
the domain is "example.org."

This seemed to work perfectly until I come across a URL like
http://www.example.co.uk/
My script thinks the domain is "co.uk."

So I added a bit of code to account for this, basically if the 2nd to last
segment of the hostname is "co" then take the last 3 segments.

Then I stumbled across a URL like http://www.example.com.au/

So it occurred to me that this is not the best solution, unless I have a
definitive list of all exceptions to go off of.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Any advice is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Brad

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