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How do you deal with the url if it can change?

For example, you register for example.com on http://register.example.com and then login on https://login.example.com and in the future they may change it to https://examplelogin.com/auth/

Or what if the company changes name? For example, I used to log into my bank on http://wamu.com and now they are bought by Chase so it's http://chase.com

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You remember what the url used to be. This happens to work much better than browser plugins which are unaware of such changes.

I employ a similar tactic, and I can't recall ever one single site that I use changing its name. If it happened, I would then just change the password to reflect the name change, but it would be so infrequent that I'm not worried about it.

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