NAME

	Net::Domain::TLD - Work with TLD names 

SYNOPSIS

	use Net::Domain::TLD qw(tlds tld_exists);
	my @ccTLDs = tlds('cc');
	print "TLD ok\n" if tld_exists('ac','cc');

DESCRIPTION

	The purpose of this module is to provide user with current list of 
	available top level domain names including new ICANN additions and ccTLDs
	Currently TLD definitions have been acquired from the following sources:

	http://www.icann.org/tlds/
	http://www.dnso.org/constituency/gtld/gtld.html
	http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm

PUBLIC METHODS

	Each public function/method is described here.
	These are how you should interact with this module.

tlds

	This routine returns the tlds requested.

	my @all_tlds = tlds; #array of tlds
	my $all_tlds = tlds; #hashref of tlds and their descriptions

	my @cc_tlds = tlds('cc'); #array of just 'cc' type tlds
	my $cc_tlds = tlds('cc'); #hashref of just 'cc' type tlds and their descriptions

	Valid types are:
		cc                 - country code domains
		gtld_open          - generic domains that anyone can register
		gtld_restricted    - generic restricted registration domains
		new_open           - recently added generic domains
		new_restricted     - new restricted registration domains

tld_exists

	This routine returns true if the given domain exists and false otherwise.

	die "no such domain" unless tld_exists($tld); #call without tld type 
	die "no such domain" unless tld_exists($tld, 'new_open'); #call with tld type

COPYRIGHT

	Copyright (c) 2003-2005 Alex Pavlovic, all rights reserved.  This program
	is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms
	as Perl itself.

AUTHORS

	Alexander Pavlovic <alex.pavlovic@taskforce-1.com>
	Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org>