Re:Ask HN: why are domain names reversely ordered?
by mdoar on Monday October 19, 2009 @07:55PM
(#891387)
Yes, I think this is the answer. There are two choices, so being human, we chose both. Then eventually chose one of those two. I used to have an email address [email protected]
i.e. with the domains reversed.
~Matt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET_NRS
Which caused no end of problems in mail relay at the time.