How does one concisely differentiate between a DNS-to-IP lookup and reverse ordering of TLD > domain > subdomain relationships?

Question, Rationale, and Context Commonly, in AOSP package names, [2] and always, in Flatpak package names [4] (even some WinGet ones, too), [1] DNS is utilised as the naming scheme, yet is reversed in the more logical order that Tim Berners-Lee wished he had implemented: [3] Also I would have put the domain name in the reverse order - in order of size so, for example, the BCS address would read: http://uk.org.bcs/members [org.bcs]. The last two terms of this example could both be servers if necessary. Searching for information about this is nigh impossible, because the "reverse DNS" that I've always colloquially referred to it as already exists as the standard name for a DNS-to-IPv4/6 lookup. Consequently, does a term exist which refers to this? I ask because it becomes increasingly important as the aforementioned OSes and packaging formats gain popularity. Closure Mitigation A tag exists for this topic. Broadness I read Revision /2 of a/8882 (which answers Revision /3 of q/8881), to prepare. Most importantly, the answer states: A minor objection is that the goal of Stack Exchange style Q&A is not primarily to help the asker, but to build a library of posts that helps future people with the same question. “Name this thing” questions are very difficult to find because they typically contain a vague, unsearchable problem description if you don't already know the descriptive term. Terminology questions also tend to suffer from the problem that they are literally unanswerable: some things don't have names, at least not names that are widely accepted in the field. In theory “there is no name for this” could be a valid though disappointing answer, in practice such a question is likely to attract suggestions for made up names – see the bit about polls above. I believe that this question differs in its specificity and frequency of usage. Existent Duplicate search?q=rdns returned 0 results at 2025-04-01T12:28+01:00: We couldn't find anything for rdns Search options: not deleted

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Question, Rationale, and Context

Commonly, in AOSP package names, ^[2] and always, in Flatpak package names ^[4] (even some WinGet ones, too), ^[1] DNS is utilised as the naming scheme, yet is reversed in the more logical order that Tim Berners-Lee wished he had implemented: ^[3]

Also I would have put the domain name in the reverse order - in order of size so, for example, the BCS address would read: http://uk.org.bcs/members [org.bcs]. The last two terms of this example could both be servers if necessary.

Searching for information about this is nigh impossible, because the "reverse DNS" that I've always colloquially referred to it as already exists as the standard name for a DNS-to-IPv4/6 lookup. Consequently, does a term exist which refers to this? I ask because it becomes increasingly important as the aforementioned OSes and packaging formats gain popularity.

Closure Mitigation

A tag exists for this topic.
Broadness

I read Revision /2 of a/8882 (which answers Revision /3 of q/8881), to prepare. Most importantly, the answer states:
- A minor objection is that the goal of Stack Exchange style Q&A is not primarily to help the asker, but to build a library of posts that helps future people with the same question. “Name this thing” questions are very difficult to find because they typically contain a vague, unsearchable problem description if you don't already know the descriptive term.
- Terminology questions also tend to suffer from the problem that they are literally unanswerable: some things don't have names, at least not names that are widely accepted in the field. In theory “there is no name for this” could be a valid though disappointing answer, in practice such a question is likely to attract suggestions for made up names – see the bit about polls above.
I believe that this question differs in its specificity and frequency of usage.
Existent Duplicate

search?q=rdns returned 0 results at 2025-04-01T12:28+01:00:

We couldn't find anything for rdns
Search options: not deleted