PaidLevelDomain (Crawler-commons 1.5 API)

java.lang.Object
- crawlercommons.domains.PaidLevelDomain

```
public class PaidLevelDomain
extends Object
```
Routines to extract the PLD (paid-level domain, as per the IRLbot paper) from a hostname or URL. This class uses the EffectiveTldFinder based on the public suffix list.

Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor Description

PaidLevelDomain()

Method Summary

All Methods Static Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`static String`	`getPLD(String hostname)`	Extract the PLD (paid-level domain) from the hostname.
`static String`	`getPLD(URL url)`	Extract the PLD (paid-level domain) from the URL.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Constructor Detail
  - PaidLevelDomain
```
public PaidLevelDomain()
```
- Method Detail
  - getPLD
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public static String getPLD(String hostname)
```
    Extract the PLD (paid-level domain) from the hostname. If the format isn't recognized, the original hostname is returned.
    
    Parameters:
    
    hostname - hostname from URL, e.g. www.example.co.uk
    
    Returns:
    
    PLD, e.g. example.co.uk
  - getPLD
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public static String getPLD(URL url)
```
    Extract the PLD (paid-level domain) from the URL.
    
    Parameters:
    
    url - valid URL, e.g. https://www.example.co.uk/
    
    Returns:
    
    PLD, e.g. example.co.uk