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Scammers registering date-based domain names
It didn't have to be that order for DNS, JANET NRS [1] had the most authoritative part on the left.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET_NRS
xyz20200102
on Jan 3, 2020
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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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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET_NRS