Increasing tlds list accuratness by (?![a-z])

[ghost]

Thanks to that little piece of regexp code, strings like:

I'am Damian.Gathering is my favorite skill

won't be matched

[schinkowitch]

It would be great to see this merged. It fixes issue #57, which gives false positives when matching URLs.

[niftylettuce]

This cannot be merged, at least on the Node.js side, as is causes RE2 to error with 'invalid perl operator: (?!'. If you're not using RE2, then you are subject to CVE-2020-7661.

Since it can't be merged on the Node side, it would be super inconsistent with Browser usage.

[niftylettuce]

See my new package at https://github.com/niftylettuce/url-regex-safe if you want to submit a PR that solves this differently.

[niftylettuce]

Do either of you have time to work on implementing an alternative that doesn't use a negative lookahead/behind approach? I would award a bounty, if you submitted a patch to https://github.com/niftylettuce/url-regex-safe. It'd be great as it's parsing out stuff like foo.is from foo.istanbul.

[niftylettuce]

I actually found a solution, see spamscanner/spamscanner@0f57896 and the related tests I wrote (and you might want to read the comments as well).