When updating src/net/base/registry_controlled_domains/effective_tld_names.dat: 1. Obtain the new effective_tld_names.dat, probably by downloading https://publicsuffix.org/list/public_suffix_list.dat 2. Remove whitespace from the ends of the lines. You could possibly use something like: sed -i -e "s/\s*$//g" \ src/net/base/registry_controlled_domains/effective_tld_names.dat 3. Add the Chromium note back in just after the license at the top, and just before '===BEGIN ICANN DOMAINS==='. Ensure there is an empty line above and two empty lines below the note. The note should say: // Chromium note: this is based on Mozilla's file: // https://publicsuffix.org/list/public_suffix_list.dat 4. Build tld_cleanup (the "(net)" > "tld_cleanup" project) 5. Run it (no arguments needed), typically from src/build/Release or src/build/Debug. It will re-generate src/net/base/registry_controlled_domains/effective_tld_names.gperf. 6. Check in the updated effective_tld_names.dat, effective_tld_names.gperf Note that gperf is no longer used for effective_tld_names, but when building chromium the file effective_tld_names.gperf will be parsed by make_dafsa.py to generate the file effective_tld_names-inc.cc, which is included in registry_controlled_domain.cc