I believe that Tuvalu sold the rights to that domain...note, for example, www.io.tv, a site for Cablevision's digital cable service. Paul Baumgartel paul.baumgartel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 212.538.1143 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David Aldridge Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 2:34 PM To: richard.c.ji@xxxxxxxxx; rjamya@xxxxxxxxx Cc: Stephane Faroult; Oracle Discussion List Subject: Re: Algorithm or ideas wanted for creative text parsing .tv = Tuvalu http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm --- Richard Ji <richard.c.ji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Raj, > > .tv is 2 characters yet its' not a ccTLD, you need to get a list of > valid ISO two letter country codes. > > Richard Ji > > On 4/10/06, rjamya <rjamya@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks SF and all > > > > maybe here is what I can do ... > > > > 1. if the domain is numeric, take it as it is > > 2. if the TLD (i.e. the last piece) is 3 or more characters, you take > > last 2 pieces > > (this will cover com,org,edu,name,info,museum etc) > > 3. if the last piece is 2 characters (most likely a ccTLD), take last 3 > > pieces > > (i.e. il, br, ca, uk etc) > > > > hmmm ... looks promising, am I missing anything? > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l ============================================================================== Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.credit-suisse.com/legal/en/disclaimer_email_ib.html ============================================================================== -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l