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+import gleam/list
+import possum/handle
+
+pub fn parse_test() -> Nil {
+  // syntactically valid examples
+  let assert Ok(_) =
+    list.try_fold(
+      [
+        "jay.bsky.social",
+        "8.cn",
+        "name.t--t",
+        "XX.LCS.MIT.EDU",
+        "a.co",
+        "xn--notarealidn.com",
+        "xn--fiqa61au8b7zsevnm8ak20mc4a87e.xn--fiqs8s",
+        "xn--ls8h.test",
+        "example.t",
+      ],
+      Nil,
+      fn(_, item) {
+        case handle.parse(item) {
+          Ok(_) -> Ok(Nil)
+          Error(err) -> Error(err)
+        }
+      },
+    )
+
+  // invalid syntax
+  let assert Error(handle.InvalidSyntax(_)) =
+    list.try_fold(
+      [
+        "jo@hn.test",
+        "💩.test",
+        "john..test",
+        "xn--bcher-.tld",
+        "john.0",
+        "cn.8",
+        "www.masełkowski.pl.com",
+        "org",
+        "name.org.",
+      ],
+      Nil,
+      fn(_, item) {
+        case handle.parse(item) {
+          Ok(_) -> Ok(Nil)
+          Error(err) -> Error(err)
+        }
+      },
+    )
+
+  // valid syntax, but domain is not allowed
+  let assert Error(handle.DisallowedTopLevelDomain(_)) =
+    list.try_fold(
+      [
+        "2gzyxa5ihm7nsggfxnu52rck2vv4rvmdlkiu3zzui5du4xyclen53wid.onion",
+        "laptop.local",
+        "blah.arpa",
+      ],
+      Nil,
+      fn(_, item) {
+        case handle.parse(item) {
+          Ok(_) -> Ok(Nil)
+          Error(err) -> Error(err)
+        }
+      },
+    )
+  Nil
+}