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libpsl - C library to handle the Public Suffix List
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A "public suffix" is a domain name under which Internet users can directly register own names.
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A *Public Suffix List* is a collection of Top Level Domains (TLDs) suffixes. TLDs include *Global Top Level Domains* (gTLDs) like `.com` and `.net`; *Country Top Level Domains* (ccTLDs) like `.de` and `.cn`; and *[Brand Top Level Domains](https://icannwiki.org/Brand_TLD)* like `.apple` and `.google`. Brand TLDs allows users to register their own top level domain that exist at the same level as ICANN's gTLDs. Brand TLDs are sometimes referred to as Vanity Domains.
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Browsers and other web clients can use it to
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Browsers, web clients and other user agents can use a public suffix list to:
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- avoid privacy-leaking "supercookies"
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- avoid privacy-leaking "super domain" certificates ([see post from Jeffry Walton](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-03/msg00093.html))
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