[Users] [Bug 3562] Hyperlink Errors URI XMPP, SIP, SIPS and Skype

[Genghis Khan]

It appears that I2P and ONION are not included.

I see no reason to perform any check against a TLD list, nor even to
have an internal TLD list.

> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 4:14 PM
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry at piermont.com>
> To: "Andrej Kacian" <andrej at kacian.sk>
> Cc: users at lists.claws-mail.org
> Subject: Re: [Users] [Bug 3562] Hyperlink Errors URI XMPP, SIP, SIPS and Skype
>
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:04:23 +0100 Andrej Kacian <andrej at kacian.sk>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:27:25 -0500
> > "Perry E. Metzger" <perry at piermont.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > FYI, .xyz is a completely valid top level domain. Yes, you can
> > > argue it is a stupid TLD, but it has been in place for some time
> > > now. See, for example: https://abc.xyz/
> > 
> > You're right, I guess our internal TLD list needs updating.
> > Thankfully we alerady found a volunteer for that. :)
> > 
> 
> Sadly, TLDs are now being added a quite a clip, so it may be
> necessary to automatically load the list at intervals from:
> https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt
> 
> Note also that the list is now so large that one might question
> whether or not it is a useful means to distinguish URLs from ordinary
> text at all. :(
> 
> Perry
> -- 
> Perry E. Metzger		perry at piermont.com
>