NAME

Net::Domain::TLD - Work with TLD names 

SYNOPSIS

use Net::Domain::TLD qw(tlds tld_exists);
my @ccTLDs = tlds('cc');
print "TLD ok\n" if tld_exists('ac','cc');

DESCRIPTION

The purpose of this module is to provide user with current list of 
available top level domain names including new ICANN additions and ccTLDs
Currently TLD definitions have been acquired from the following sources:

http://www.icann.org/tlds/
http://www.dnso.org/constituency/gtld/gtld.html
http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm
https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db

PUBLIC METHODS

Each public function/method is described here.
These are how you should interact with this module.

tlds

This routine returns the tlds requested.

my @all_tlds = tlds; #array of tlds
my $all_tlds = tlds; #hashref of tlds and their descriptions

my @cc_tlds = tlds('cc'); #array of just 'cc' type tlds
my $cc_tlds = tlds('cc'); #hashref of just 'cc' type tlds and their descriptions

Valid types are:
  cc                 - country code domains
  ccidn              - internationalized country code top-level domain 
  gtld_open          - generic domains that anyone can register
  gtld_restricted    - generic restricted registration domains
  gtld_new           - new gTLDs
  new_open           - recently added generic domains
  new_restricted     - new restricted registration domains
  reserved           - RFC2606 restricted names, not returned by tlds

tld_exists

This routine returns true if the given domain exists and false otherwise.

die "no such domain" unless tld_exists($tld); #call without tld type 
die "no such domain" unless tld_exists($tld, 'new_open'); #call with tld type

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2003-2016 Alex Pavlovic, all rights reserved.  This program
is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms
as Perl itself.

AUTHORS

Alexander Pavlovic <alex.pavlovic@devradius.com>
Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org>