Mysql query to extract domains from urls

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I had to combine some of the previous answers , plus a little more hackery for my data set . This is what works for me , it returns the domain and any sub-domains: 

SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(target_url, "https://stackoverflow.com/", 3), '://', -1), "https://stackoverflow.com/", 1), '?', 1) AS domain

Explanation ( cause non-trivial SQL rarely makes sense ):

SUBSTRING_INDEX(target_url, "https://stackoverflow.com/", 3) – strips any path if the url has a protocol
SUBSTRING_INDEX(THAT, '://', -1) – strips any protocol from THAT
SUBSTRING_INDEX(THAT, "https://stackoverflow.com/", 1) – strips any path from THAT ( if there was no protocol )
SUBSTRING_INDEX(THAT, '?', 1) – strips the query string from THAT ( if there was no path or trailing / )

Test Cases:

SELECT SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(target_url, "https://stackoverflow.com/", 3), '://', -1), "https://stackoverflow.com/", 1), '?', 1) AS domain
FROM ( 
    SELECT       'http://test.com' as target_url 
    UNION SELECT 'https://test.com' 
    UNION SELECT 'http://test.com/one' 
    UNION SELECT 'http://test.com/?huh' 
    UNION SELECT 'http://test.com?http://ouch.foo' 
    UNION SELECT 'test.com' 
    UNION SELECT 'test.com/one'
    UNION SELECT 'test.com/one/two'
    UNION SELECT 'test.com/one/two/three'
    UNION SELECT 'test.com/one/two/three?u=http://maaaaannn'
    UNION SELECT 'http://one.test.com'
    UNION SELECT 'one.test.com/one'
    UNION SELECT 'two.one.test.com/one' ) AS Test;

Results:

'test.com'
'test.com'
'test.com'
'test.com'
'test.com'
'test.com'
'test.com'
'test.com'
'test.com'
'test.com'
'one.test.com'
'one.test.com'
'two.one.test.com'

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