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 spe

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.