why are domain names reversely ordered?
aristus: It's just a convention, and one that took a while to work itself out. Some older mail servers used to route (and even rewrite -- shudder) domains the other way round. Like little- and big-endian numbers, the merits of either method are less important than having everyone do it the same way.http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/big-endian.html