# Topic "popular links" panel domain extraction doesn't handle country TLDs

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-popular-links-panel-domain-extraction-doesnt-handle-country-tlds/60156>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [March 30, 2017, 4:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-popular-links-panel-domain-extraction-doesnt-handle-country-tlds/60156 "2017-03-30T04:32:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 12:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-popular-links-panel-domain-extraction-doesnt-handle-country-tlds/60156/38 "2017-07-24T00:42:07Z")

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I really, really object to this 💩

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/f/7fc72d384b14c490609b6c2523d88e4ca2dc557f.jpg)

So at minimum we _PLEASE_ need to suppress the part of the string beginning with `www.` from the display here.. this is so hideous. I do not care about TLD perfection, what I care about is hideous awful repetitive output appearing for users.

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