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		gabriel-coarna on Oct 17, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: why are domain names reversely ordered? Actually, com.google.www/root/sub/subsub would make the most sense. The Commercial domain. The Google host/company. The www service/sub-domain. The path.

pwmanagerdied on Oct 17, 2009 [–]

I don't think that there's anything inherently more sensible about going from least to most specific instead of the opposite, as long as it's consistent.

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