Why does the remove subdomains from URLs function not work for some domains?

Why does the remove subdomains from URLs function not work for some domains?

With the new ability to register generic tlds it has gotten a bit confusing.  So Scrapebox uses a database to remove subdomains from urls.

However sometimes you will have a list and most of it seems to work, but you will be left with stuff like

something.blogspot.com

and wonder why that subdomain wasn't removed.  The answer is that is not a subdomain thats a domain because blogspot.com is an actual tld.  So it would seem.com is the tld, but its not its blogspot.com So

car.something.blogspot.com

is a subdomain but

something.blogspot.com is a regular domain just like car.com is a regular domain.  You can view the complete list here:

https://publicsuffix.org/list/effective_tld_names.dat

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