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by rgovostes 2904 days ago
Yes, if you were living in a world where the bank would only give an account to the first person named "John" to sign up, you should have researched names first. It will be fun dealing with file associations over the .xar extension.

Companies used to coordinate to make sure they didn't conflict on port numbers, Apple used to run a database for ensuring that creator codes were unique, etc. Now one of the biggest tech companies can't be bothered to check if they collide with another large tech company in a sparsely populated namespace.