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Expand defintion of PSL; add ICANN reference

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Jeffrey Walton 2018-01-04 20:48:45 -05:00 committed by Tim Rühsen
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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.
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.
Browsers and other web clients can use it to
Browsers, web clients and other user agents can use a public suffix list to:
- avoid privacy-leaking "supercookies"
- avoid privacy-leaking "super domain" certificates ([see post from Jeffry Walton](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-03/msg00093.html))