domainist
/doh-mayn'ist/ adj. 1. Said of an {{Internet
address}} (as opposed to a
bang path) because the part to the
right of the `@' specifies a nested series of `domains';
for example, eric@snark.thyrsus.com specifies the machine
called snark in the subdomain called thyrsus within the
top-level domain called com. See also
big-endian, sense 2.
2. Said of a site, mailer, or routing program which knows how to
handle domainist addresses. 3. Said of a person (esp. a site
admin) who prefers domain addressing, supports a domainist mailer,
or prosyletizes for domainist addressing and disdains {bang
path}s. This is now (1991) semi-obsolete, as most sites have
converted.
