Algorithm Documentation

[simon-friedberger]

The documentation of the algorithm in the wiki needs some love.

The following is wrong when people use the PSL to determine if something is a valid URL/domain:

If no rules match, the prevailing rule is "*".

The general description of matching is also wrong in many cases. All browsers seem to implement the rule that a wildcard
*.foo.com implies that foo.com is a public suffix as well. There is no immediate need to make a case but we should fix the documentation.

[weppos]

Why do you think it is wrong?

The following is wrong when people use the PSL to determine if something is a valid URL/domain:

For what is worth, this has never been the goal of the PSL.

[simon-friedberger]

My impression was that it is an accepted use case. Otherwise, why do we list TLDs at all?