When I get bored, I tend to spend time on Craigslist.org scouring the classifieds. I find it fun, and I like to compare apartment rates to what I am currently spending. This really has nothing to do with my point, though.
I know for sure that the Web site is Craigslist.org, but what about the actual name? I had always assumed it was just "Craigslist," sans apostrophe and only one word. But lately, I've been seeing the words "Craig's List" so many times I began to question my own grammatical accuracy. So what was the real answer?
It turns out I have been mostly right. After a thorough investigation of the site (which is not sloppily constructed or grammatically inaccurate), I have never seen anything other than "craigslist." The "factsheet" section of the site explicitly answers my question.
Here is my conclusion:
Because the Web site, which is the truest source I can refer to, spells it "craigslist" (no apostrophe, one word, no capital letters) without fail, we must explicitly adhere to that. And, to keep with common practice, we should refer to the Web site name as "Craigslist.org" (one word, capital "c").
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