diff --git a/app/lib/extractor.rb b/app/lib/extractor.rb
index 9090773ae9..c2c634ea4f 100644
--- a/app/lib/extractor.rb
+++ b/app/lib/extractor.rb
@@ -2,11 +2,27 @@
 
 module Extractor
   MAX_DOMAIN_LENGTH = 253
+  MAX_URL_LENGTH = 4096
 
   extend Twitter::TwitterText::Extractor
 
   module_function
 
+  def is_valid_domain(url_length, domain, protocol)
+    begin
+      raise ArgumentError.new("invalid empty domain") unless domain
+      original_domain_length = domain.length
+      encoded_domain = IDN::Idna.toASCII(domain, IDN::Idna::ALLOW_UNASSIGNED)
+      updated_domain_length = encoded_domain.length
+      url_length += (updated_domain_length - original_domain_length) if (updated_domain_length > original_domain_length)
+      url_length += URL_PROTOCOL_LENGTH unless protocol
+      url_length <= MAX_URL_LENGTH
+      # On error don't consider this a valid domain.
+    rescue Exception
+      return false
+    end
+  end
+
   def extract_entities_with_indices(text, options = {}, &block)
     entities = extract_urls_with_indices(text, options) +
                extract_hashtags_with_indices(text, check_url_overlap: false) +