"." not part of TLD

[BenKnigge]

The preceding . isn't part of the TLD

Authoritative example

https://www.iana.org/whois?q=tw

[ewheeler]

@BenKnigge thanks and good point this is an upstream issue from our source, which is geonames for TLDs: http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/countryInfo.txt

happy to pull from a better source if we can identify one