That name! Associations ad libitum with meathooks and carcasses and bloodstained butchers. Yes, I actually believe this is the reason I never went there.
And same goes, to a lesser extent, for Slashdot.
The slash in Slashdot is just / as in /. —nothing violent!
More cutely, the slash in Shashdot is so that when you verbally communicate the URL to someone, it sounds like "aitch tee tee pee colon slash slash dot dot oh are gee".
I've read that Malda wished a 'dot' TLD was available back then so it could be 'aitch tee tee pee colon slash slash slash dot dot dot'.