Codewars 5 kyu Extract the domain name from a URL

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Task
Write a function that when given a URL as a string, parses out just the domain name and returns it as a string. For example:

• url = "http://github.com/carbonfive/raygun" -> domain name = "github"
• url = "http://www.zombie-bites.com" -> domain name = "zombie-bites"
• url = "https://www.cnet.com" -> domain name=”cnet”

Verbalization

replace “http://” to “”
replace “https://” to “”
Replace “www.“ to “”
Extract left side of “.”
idx = s.find(“.”) #find the index of “.”
r = s[:idx] # slice the index of “.”

Code

def domain_name(url):
    name = url.replace("http://","").replace("https://","").replace("www.","")
    idx = name.find(".") 
    name = name[:idx]  

    return name

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