Extract the TLD from a domain name

There is no standard PHP function to extract the TLD from a domain name, parsing an URL with parse_url() will return the host name and other URL information. If you need only the TLD, for example to query the WHOIS data of a given domain name, the following script should be useful. To run this script you need a database with all TLD’s. The snippet is using a database table which is required for the scripts functionality, download the MySQL table dump here. Continue reading Extract the TLD from a domain name