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Although a less descriptive name allows you to adapt your service more easily. If amazon started as onlinebooks.com it would have made the migration to online everything + AWS + kindle + everything else more difficult.



on the other hand if evernote had a captcha-looking name i 'd never have stumbled upon it.


Optimizing for the wrong problem.




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