Mislabeling of eTLD-n

[thypon]

As mentioned in publicsuffix/list#1872 (comment)

Multiple psl libraries share the same bug while handling wildcards.

I went over all the FOSS implementations in https://publicsuffix.org/learn/ , and I found 3 of them behave funny for wildcard domains. In particular:

• regdom-libs
• publicsuffix2
• publicsuffixlist.js

Seems to all mislabel eTLD-n x [eTLD minus n] (with n from 0 to infinite), as an eTLD, if another eTLD y is defined as a subdomain of that x eTLD-n.

As an example publicsuffix2 behaviour with the following patch:

 // Linode : https://linode.com
 // Submitted by <[email protected]>
 members.linode.com
-nodebalancer.linode.com
+*.nodebalancer.linode.com
+*.linodeobjects.com
+ip.linodeusercontent.com

Example here: