How to extract domain name from url?

Question

How do I extract the domain name from a url using bash? like: http://example.com/ to example.com must work for any tld, not just .com

Answer 1

$ URI="http://user:pw@example.com:80/"
$ echo $URI | sed -e 's/[^/]*\/\/\([^@]*@\)\?\([^:/]*\).*/\2/'
example.com

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme