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The Public Suffix List
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The Public Suffix List is an initiative of the Mozilla Project, but is maintained as a community resource. It is available for use in any software, but was originally created to meet the needs of browser manufacturers. It allows browsers to, for example:
Avoid privacy-damaging "supercookies" being set for high-level domain name suffixes
Highlight the most important part of a domain name in the user interface
Accurately sort history entries by site
-- quoted from publicsuffix.org.
The public suffix list is used inside Qt to avoid such "supercookies" mentioned above being set in the cookie jar supported by Qt (by the QNetworkCookieJar class).
See src/network/access/qnetworkcookiejartlds_p.h.INFO for more information about how the list is used.

