[T-hawk]

Numeric notation is built right to left. To count up from 1 to 9 uses single digits, of course. Then to go from 9 to 10, the ones place increments and rolls over, and we add the new tens digit on the left, not the right.

[bnegreve]

Not sure, the numeric notation is little endian wheras DNSs are big endian.

[B-Con]

That's the point. Numeric notation is right-to-left. It was around long before the concept of endianness.

[bnegreve]

What does it mean to be right-to-left? If it means that least significant values are on the right side and most significant ones on the left side, then domain names are left-to-right (as opposed to numeric notation).