At the time the DNS was being designed, there was some discussion of this, and at least one person was outraged we were doing it the "wrong way." I don't rememb

At the time the DNS was being designed, there was some discussion of this, and at least one person was outraged we were doing it the "wrong way." I don't remember the arguments. I think it had something to do with putting the least significant component first being considered more natural. DNS came along a couple years after Usenet switched from a flat to heirarchical name space.