* that they were not initialized yet.
   */
  private static final int SUFFIX_NOT_INITIALIZED = -2;

  /**
   * Maximum parts (labels) in a domain name. This value arises from the 255-octet limit described
   * in <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2181.txt">RFC 2181</a> part 11 with the fact that the
   * encoding of each part occupies at least two bytes (dot plus label externally, length byte plus