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[paulgb]

Unfortunately, not all countries have a standard TLD for schools. I think the only way around it is with a whitelist of domains, but I'm not sure where the list would come from. Maybe someone has created it already? Either that, or use the facebook API.

[silencio → paulgb]

Even facebook in the beginning took that approach by limiting the schools you could sign up for.

[arjunb → paulgb]

yeah, you can use facebook connect to get the school networks associated to a user. might help simplify your reg process.