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It didn't have to be that order for DNS, JANET NRS [1] had the most authoritative part on the left.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET_NRS




According to Paul Mockapetris who designed the DNS, domain names are little-endian to make autocompletion easier and to allow unqualified "local" names (e.g. "bilbo" instead of "bilbo.cs.college.edu").




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