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Geography
Geography.Countries
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Method Geography.Countries.from_domain()
- Method
from_domain
Country from_domain(string domain)
- Description
Look up a country from a domain name.
Returns zero if the domain doesn't map
to a country. Note that there are some
valid domains that don't:
- INT
International
- MIL
US Military
- NET
Network
- ORG
Non-Profit Organization
- ARPA
Old style Arpanet
- NATO
Nato field
And that US has five domains, Great Britain and france two:
<dl compact>
<dt>EDU <dd>US Educational
<dt>MIL <dd>US Military
<dt>GOV <dd>US Government
<dt>UM <dd>US Minor Outlying Islands
<dt>US <dd>US
<dt>GB <dd>Great Britain (UK)
<dt>UK <dd>United Kingdom
<dt>FR <dd>France
<dt>FX <dd>France, Metropolitan
<dt>There's also three domains that for convinience maps to US:
<dt>NET <dd>Network
<dt>ORG <dd>Organization
<dt>COM <dd>Commercial
</dl>
- Method
from_domain
Country from_domain(string name)
- Description
Look up a country from its name or aka.
The search is case-insensitive but
regards whitespace and interpunctation.
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