[robin_reala]

Leaving aside what everyone else said, the thing that rankled has always been a false claim of association with W3 in their domain name.

[rambambram]

With W3C, you mean? Because as far as I know W3 stands just for world wide web.

[int_19h]

In theory it does, but pretty much nobody uses it in this manner except for W3C, so that is the association for most people who recognize it in the first place.