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hostnames can have more than three components, e.g. "www.ox.ac.uk". So it's either biggest to smallest: "com.google.www" or smallest to biggest: "www.google.com".

google.com.www is in neither ascending or descending order.

www.google/stuff works now that we have generic TLDs and .google is a TLD, but before that it ignores the possibility of google.net and google.org. This may not be a problem for a unique trademark like google but not all domains are trademarks.



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