This is not related to ASP. (But I am not finding any forum to discuss this). Sorry.

May I know where I can get an exhaustive list of valid domain extensions (.com, .net, .gov.in etc. etc.) ? Ideally it should be a live one in the sense when a new domain extension is approved, that extension should also come in this list.

This is for writing a validation function for emails and URLs.

Thanks

Madhu

for this you have to check the DSNs (Domain Name Servers) for checking the domain exestense



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A left field reply; I find this email validation very good:

email=document.addUser.eMail.value;
var expression=/^([a-zA-Z0-9\-\._]+)@(([a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+\.)+)([a-z]{2,3})$/;
if(!(expression.test(email)) )
{
alert("Please enter a valid email address");
document.addUser.eMail.select();
document.addUser.eMail.focus();
return false;
}

This looks like a fairly good domain suffix list:
http://www.norid.no/domenenavnbaser/domreg.html

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Matt

Dear Matt,

Thanks for this regular expression. This works correctly.

But this approves a domain like http://www.madhu.coo also. Actually there is no extension like coo. This is why I want to get a list of all valid domain extensions.

I just got an approx. list at

http://www.alldomains.com/alltlds.html

But I don't know whether it is exhaustive.

Thanks again for the replies.

Madhu

You can't consider that to be the end of it. In future if required some new nomenclature would arrive. It is always hard to mention the list of valid domains/URLs in use. Only thing you can do is to write something like nslookup that immediately validates and results if the domain is valid or not based on domain name resolution.

Hope that helps.
Cheers!

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