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Ask HN: Would it make sense to have a website to keep track of your address?

3 points by tetek ↗ HN
I've moved 5 times in the last 7 years, and almost everywhere in the internet I have a wrong address.

Would it make sense to have a website which maps physical address to your login/password? It would still be anonymous, no names etc.

Then on other websites you would provide a token which would allow it to query your address from the main database.

So you only maintain in in one place, and every other website could be updating it if necessary when you log in.

I know the trick is that other websites must be willing to use it, but it seems like the way it should be done.

what do you think?

3 comments

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proyb2
I know the trick you are thinking, no one implement it for privacy reason.
keehun
This might be better done in a Password Manager. Whenever you register, make a record of the address you've used in your Password Manager, along with your password. Because I've also moved around quite a bit and have some older addresses under certain accounts, I make a note of this so that I can accurately say what my address is if I'm calling customer service, etc. Of course, I try to update all of my addresses, but sometimes I either forget to or cannot update my address.
mattbgates
If you sign up for Credit Karma, they automatically do it for you ;)

When I purchased my house and signed with a mortgage company, they did ask me to list all of my addresses that I had ever lived at.. and asked me why I lived at so many places.