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Reverse the order of domain name components. Most significant should be on the left: com.ycombinator.news/blah/file
by raldi 15y ago
Reverse the order of domain name components. Most significant should be on the left: com.ycombinator.news/blah/file
- hollerith 15y agothe Brits wrote them that way into the 1990s.
- waqf 15y agoyes! that was the original convention on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET.
- lkrubner 15y agoThat is, of course, one of the regrets that Sir Tim Berners Lee has: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1220286/Sir-Tim-Berners-Lee-admits-forward-slashes-web-address-mistake.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1220286/Sir-T... "In the past, Sir Tim has also said that he would reverse the order of domain names, in order of size. This would mean that the web address for the bird guide on the RSPCA’s website, for example, would read: http:uk/org/rspca/wildlife/birdguide. "
- mvzink 15y agoCouldn't this be accomplished on the level of web browsers (and lower), just by rearranging the domain name before asking the DNS? It does seem very abritrary convention-y, you know.