Get specific subdomain from URL in foo.bar.car.com

Question

Given a URL as follows:

foo.bar.car.com.au

I need to extract foo.bar.

I came across the following code :

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Answer 1

I faced a similar problem and, based on the preceding answers, wrote this extension method. Most importantly, it takes a parameter that defines the "root" domain, i.e. whatever the consumer of the method considers to be the root. In the OP's case, the call would be

Uri uri = "foo.bar.car.com.au";
uri.DnsSafeHost.GetSubdomain("car.com.au"); // returns foo.bar
uri.DnsSafeHost.GetSubdomain(); // returns foo.bar.car

Here's the extension method:

/// 
Gets the subdomain portion of a url, given a known "root" domain
public static string GetSubdomain(this string url, string domain = null)
{
  var subdomain = url;
  if(subdomain != null)
  {
    if(domain == null)
    {
      // Since we were not provided with a known domain, assume that second-to-last period divides the subdomain from the domain.
      var nodes = url.Split('.');
      var lastNodeIndex = nodes.Length - 1;
      if(lastNodeIndex > 0)
        domain = nodes[lastNodeIndex-1] + "." + nodes[lastNodeIndex];
    }

    // Verify that what we think is the domain is truly the ending of the hostname... otherwise we're hooped.
    if (!subdomain.EndsWith(domain))
      throw new ArgumentException("Site was not loaded from the expected domain");

    // Quash the domain portion, which should leave us with the subdomain and a trailing dot IF there is a subdomain.
    subdomain = subdomain.Replace(domain, "");
    // Check if we have anything left.  If we don't, there was no subdomain, the request was directly to the root domain:
    if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(subdomain))
      return null;

    // Quash any trailing periods
    subdomain = subdomain.TrimEnd(new[] {'.'});
  }

  return subdomain;
}