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>>>>> Jaap-Henk Hoepman <hoepman@cs.utwente.nl>:

> How many false positives would you get if you match
> <word>.<word>.[a-z][a-z] or <word>.<word>.("com"|"net"|"org"|"mil")?

I would like it to match "no" at the end, as well.  You would like it
to match "nl", presumably.  If we add all legal top level domains, it
will be one _major_ regexp.

Too big maybe?

Also I would only match if the character preceeding the first <word>
was whitespace.