I'm not trying to be argumentative, but by saying: >Subdomains are archaic You presented a bit different argument. Also I disagree - maps.google.com is a fund

I'm not trying to be argumentative, but by saying: >Subdomains are archaic You presented a bit different argument. Also I disagree - maps.google.com is a fundamentally different service, so why should it share a domain with google.com? The only reason it's not googlemaps.com is because being a subdomain of google.com implies trust. But I guess it's pretty subjective. Personally I always try to separate services by domain, because it makes sense to me, but maybe had the internet went a different path I would swear path routing makes sense.