Established way before engadget.com
I recently came across someone who mixed up engadget.com and engadgeted.net (the site you’re reading right now).
I don’t remember where it was, i think the person was misattributing my heat map plugin. I really don’t mind too much because i can easily understand how such a mix-up can happen what with the very similar names, but i thought it bears repeating that this similarity really isn’t my fault. Let’s do two quick whois-queries to drive the point home, shall we?
First, here’s (in excerpt) what you’ll get when you query “engadget.com” at whois.godaddy.com:
And here’s what you’ll get when you query “engadgeted.net” at whois.godaddy.com:
There! You see? Me and my site have been around a year longer than engadget.com. Now if you’re wondering where these two months in the archives before my domain registration come from - i started this site under its current name without the proper domain in dec ‘02, back when Peter Rojas was still writing for gizmodo.
I already think about adding a byline like “established way before engadget.com”, but what i really wanna know is - can i sue? Just kidding.