How long can a TLD possibly be?

Question

I\'m working on an email validation regex in PHP and I need to know how long the TLD could possibly be and still be valid. I did a few searches but couldn\'t find much infor

Answer 1

Since I'm a .net developer following is the java-script representation of determining the longest TLD currently available.this will return the length of the longest TLD which you would be able to use in your RegEx.

please try the following Code Snippet

function getTLD() {
    var length = 0;
    var longest;
    var request = new XMLHttpRequest();

    request.open('GET', 'http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt', true);
    request.send(null);
    request.onreadystatechange = function () {
        if (request.readyState === 4 && request.status === 200) {
            var type = request.getResponseHeader('Content-Type');
            if (type.indexOf("text") !== 1) {
                var tldArr = request.responseText.split('\n'); 
                tldArr.splice(0, 1);

                for (var i = 0; i < tldArr.length; i++) {
                    if (tldArr[i].length > length) {
                        length = tldArr[i].length;
                        longest = tldArr[i];
                    }
                } 

                console.log("Longest >> " + longest + " >> " + length);
                return length;
            }
        }
    }
}

Get TLD