Policy test URL validation missing tld

Hello Roderick,

Our WingC will try to determine the category, could you test the URL and check the category shown in the log viewer. The Policy test may show some discrepancy in the actual performance.

Hi Aditya

The category comes up as 'None'.
Would the actual URL be of any significant use?


Many thanks for looking into it.

Hello Roderick,

If the category is not known then we would need to categorize it on request. Other than that there would not be significant unless the URL is public and clients have set to block none category.

Hi Aditya

I'm not understanding what the category has got to do with it unfortunately.
The fact its category is 'None' just means that it gets blocked by default on our system & we add it to an allowed url group.

The issue is that as soon as I put in ANY url that has a tld of 'hosting' the Policy Test tool tells me that I have entered an invalid URL.
It could have a category of anything, but if the Policy Test tool will not accept it as a valid url then I can't test the results of anything I do to affect access to it.

This is a Policy Test tool issue not a categorisation issue surely?

Not a valid URL according to the tool

A valid URL according to the tool

Many thanks.

Hello Roderick,

It does seem we have a limitation on the number of characters the tld would support and found it to be 6 characters. 

so in otherwords, the policy test has some restrictions and would work if tld<7 characters. In this case "hosting" is 8 characters and would work with 6 or less characters.

Hi Aditya


That could be a bit of a problem for people.

There are 512 top level domains approved by the IANA that are longer that 6 characters. 512
The longest at the moment is 24 characters.
(http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt)

How on earth did a maximum of 6 get approved?

Can we add this to a fairly urgent fix list for the Policy Test tool please?


Many thanks

Hello Roderick,

We have an improvement scheduled to add 256 characters and also notified to development team to improve this limitation on long TLD. 

Hello Roderick,

We have an improvement scheduled to add 256 characters and also notified to development team to improve this limitation on long TLD.