# Automatic link creation for non-tld
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-link-creation-for-non-tld/74387
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 20, 2017, 1:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-link-creation-for-non-tld/74387 "2017-11-20T01:38:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Patrick\_David](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Patrick_David)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2017, 1:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-link-creation-for-non-tld/74387/1 "2017-11-20T01:38:43Z")
I am not sure if this has cropped up before. A cursory search in /c/bug didn’t turn anything up that looked related.
I love getting links automatically for URLs: [google.com](http://google.com), or [pixls.us](http://pixls.us), or [gimp.org](http://gimp.org).
Is there a list for allowed TLD’s to auto-linkify? That is, if I use a file with an extension like markdown, it gets turned into a link also: README.md (\<- that is just typing a filename + extension, not an actual link I’ve created. ☹
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### Author:  [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2017, 1:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-link-creation-for-non-tld/74387/2 "2017-11-20T01:47:29Z")
Given ICANN’s predilection for stuffing the entire dictionary into the TLD space, it’s probably a losing proposition to try and whitelist _actual_ TLDs (as an amusing note, `.md` is a valid ccTLD, for Moldova, so even if we did have a list of “valid” TLDs, README.md is a perfectly valid domain name, and does, in fact, exist – and resolve).
For filenames, specifically, I suggest wrapping them in backticks, which maintains the long-standing convention of monospace fonts for that sort of thing, and which prevents auto-linkification, a la `README.md`. Trying to educate people to mark up their links in some specific way, such as wrapping them in angle brackets, or having to include the scheme, or including a forward slash, I think are all doomed to sadness.
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### Author:  [@Patrick\_David](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Patrick_David)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2017, 1:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-link-creation-for-non-tld/74387/3 "2017-11-20T01:52:47Z")
Sounds perfectly reasonable. 🙂 I’ll do some community education on code-escaping filenames.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2017, 6:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-link-creation-for-non-tld/74387/4 "2017-12-13T06:40:40Z")
I am not sure how this is a bug report? moved it to #Support
We intend to crack down here in a later release. per: [Restrict domain name autolinking so M.Sc and B.Sc are not auto linked](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restrict-domain-name-autolinking-so-m-sc-and-b-sc-are-not-auto-linked/75837)
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2020, 7:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-link-creation-for-non-tld/74387/5 "2020-02-15T07:41:05Z")
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2020, 9:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-link-creation-for-non-tld/74387/6 "2020-02-18T09:39:05Z")
> [@Patrick\_David](#):
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> README.md
😌
Stuff is not perfectly detected now out of the box, there are many obscure tlds, but with the setting `markdown linkify tlds` in site settings you get total control!
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2020, 9:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-link-creation-for-non-tld/74387/7 "2020-02-18T09:39:13Z")