}
    }

    // In theory, wildcard rules are not restricted to having the wildcard in the leftmost position.
    // In practice, wildcards are always in the leftmost position. For now, this implementation
    // cheats and does not attempt every possible permutation. Instead, it only considers wildcards
    // in the leftmost position. We assert this fact when we generate the public suffix file. If

   */
  private fun assertWildcardRule(rule: String) {
    check(rule.startsWith(WILDCARD_CHAR)) {
      """Wildcard Assertion Failure: '$rule'
A wildcard rule was added with a wildcard that is not in leftmost position! We'll need to change the ${PublicSuffixDatabase::class.java.name} to handle this."""
    }
    check(rule.indexOf(WILDCARD_CHAR, 1) == -1) {
      """Wildcard Assertion Failure: '$rule'

          registrySuffixIndexLocal = findSuffixOfType(Optional.of(PublicSuffixType.REGISTRY));
    }
    return registrySuffixIndexLocal;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the index of the leftmost part of the suffix, or -1 if not found. Note that the value
   * defined as a suffix may not produce {@code true} results from {@link #isPublicSuffix()} or

   * k) worst case.
   */
  private void trim() {
    int left = 0;
    int right = 2 * k - 1;

    int minThresholdPosition = 0;
    // The leftmost position at which the greatest of the k lower elements
    // -- the new value of threshold -- might be found.

    int iterations = 0;
    int maxIterations = IntMath.log2(right - left, RoundingMode.CEILING) * 3;

  /**
   * If a hostname is not a key in the EXCLUDE map, and if removing its leftmost component results
   * in a name which is a key in this map, it is a public suffix.
   */
  public static final ImmutableMap<String, PublicSuffixType> UNDER =
      TrieParser.parseTrie(