[colesantiago]

What is this 'railway'?

I am assuming that a domain like railway.com should be about trains.

Why does every tech company have to name themselves as a one word .com website and what they do is unrelated and vague to their own name?

Does every tech company think they are Apple and have to register every word in the dictionary and redefine it as a technology company?

Really bad name for a company.

[thornewolf]

dispell the hate from your heart

[colesantiago]

Questioning things is not 'hate' Mr Wolf.

[normie3000]

> Does every tech company think they are Apple and have to register every word in the dictionary and redefine it as a technology company?

Netflix?

[vimda]

You don't think "railway" at least conjures ideas about the company? It's not some random word. Not every company needs to be "helps you ship software quickly inc"

[Liftyee]

Possible empirical justification: Non-tech and more "typical" orgs (train companies...) don't spend lots of money on slick-sounding one-word .com domains.

[blibble]

could be worse

could be called "entire" (https://entire.io/)

[imiric]

Worse would be x.com.

[lbrito]

A lot of companies have been doing that for a long time

Lotus

Jaguar

Caterpillar

Shell

its a human thing

[caseyohara]

Shell was originally very literal though. They sold seashells.

> The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company (the quotation marks were part of the legal name) was a British company, founded in 1897 by Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted, and his brother Samuel Samuel. Their father had owned an antique company in Houndsditch, London, which expanded in 1833 to import and sell seashells, after which the company "Shell" took its name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_plc