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Only confusing if you think it’s more likely that a railroad company is buying a town instead of another large railroad company…

They may be a monopoly in their regions but this would be the first time in a long while we had the same name coast to coast.

yes, railways don't buy towns, they build them from scratch!

Don't forget the famous Norfolk island, whose TLD is .nf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_Island

The fastest Mandelbrot rendering algorithm, using a perturbation method, was developed by a guy from there.

Believe me, it's a lot more confusing to british people.

Used to be called Norfolk & Petersburg. Now it's two city names. Does that make it less confusing?