But the domain name is not written "left to right", is the problem. As far as autocomplete goes, what you're describing is a behavior of one particular impleme

But the domain name is not written "left to right", is the problem. As far as autocomplete goes, what you're describing is a behavior of one particular implementation. If URLs looked differently, autocomplete would behave differently as well. I'm also reminded of https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/