Why did Reddit waste its money on these domains?

One thing that baffles me about large companies is how much money they spend on defensive domain name registrations. These are domains that they'll never use but decide to register to keep them out of the hands of people who might do nefarious things with them.

This makes sense to an extent. Big companies should register key domains that might be misused or that might come in handy someday in the future.

But what I usually see are companies registering dozens or hundreds of domains of very little value. Anyone who wanted to do something nefarious with domains could easily find alternatives to use.

Case in point: this week, Reddit registered 50 domain names. While I see some defensive (or future use) value in some of them, most of them are a complete waste.

Here's the list of domains.

reddit2fa.com

redditbbs.com

redditcareers.com

redditcelebrity.com

redditcloud.com

redditdigitalwallet.com

redditdirectmessages.com

redditdm.com

redditdownvote.com

redditdownvoted.com

redditeli5.com

redditflair.com

redditiamas.com

redditmeaningcloud.com

redditmisinformation.com

redditmobile.com

redditmodmode.com

redditmold.com

redditobs.com

redditopensource.com

redditoutage.com

redditpassword.com

redditpasswords.com

redditpayment.com

redditpredictions.com

redditptt.com

redditpubilcaccessnetwork.com (note the typo of public)

redditrating.com

redditratings.com

redditres.com

redditrpan.com

redditsdk.com

redditsnoo.com

redditsocial.com

redditsocialmedia.com

redditspoiler.com

redditspoilers.com

redditspoilertag.com

redditspoilertags.com

redditsponsored.com

redditsubscriptions.com

reddittelevision.com

reddittil.com

redditupthevote.com

redditupvoted.com

redditusenet.com

reddituser.com

redditusers.com

rnosleep.com

rpanstudio.com

It seems like someone at Reddit had some budget to burn.

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