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by oditogre 6855 days ago
And easier to spell, to boot. Many of these names would be hard to guess how it is spelled; I know if I heard of reddit by word of mouth and didn't have it spelled out for me, I'd be looking at readit.com or read-it.com wondering wtf was so cool about it. I have absolutely no trouble remembering xkcd.com, and it's just a random string of characters.