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It is the FQDN, but the .com.example notation specifically is generally called big-endian notation (it puts the most significant part first), the UK used to use
by maxboone 6y ago
It is the FQDN, but the .com.example notation specifically is generally called big-endian notation (it puts the most significant part first), the UK used to use this with JANET's NRS opposed to DNS.
We notate IP-addresses like that as well:
- (MSB) fe80::1 (LSB)
- (MSB) 10.0.0.1 (LSB)
However, while the TLD is the most significant tree-wise, it is probably not the most significant to the end-user, who is going to "news (in) ycombinator (in) com" instead of "com's ycombinator's news".