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No They Didn't
18 Jul 2003 by
From an email from my friend Jim:
“If you were an energy company called POWERGEN & you had a subsidiary that operated in Italy, what would you call the company’s website? probably not www.powergenitalia.com, but… they did: www.powergenitalia.com
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18 Jul 2003 | Darrel said...
The domain name is cute, but what's with the AT+T logo?
18 Jul 2003 | dmr said...
Wow, frames are so 1994; kinda like the rest of their site.
Also, why not just do powergen.com/italy; or make italian a choice on the web site? Why do we need a new domain for every iteration on a theme.
18 Jul 2003 | Michael Brunetto said...
I keep laughing Beavis and Butthead style. That these kinds of things manage to slip by unnoticed is beyond me.
Still funny as hell, though.
18 Jul 2003 | Steve said...
It's not real.
18 Jul 2003 | Andy Baio said...
Well, it's for a real company called Powergen in Italy. But it's not the Powergen UK company. This Powergen sells "specialized battery products." (More on Snopes.)
18 Jul 2003 | suppafly said...
For those of you too lazy to read:
The powergenitalia.com domain apparently hosts the web site of a real Italian company which sells specialized battery products.
it is real.. its just not the uk company as Andy Baio mentioned
21 Jul 2003 | Joshua Kaufman said...
Another one culled from Elegant Hack: expertsexchange.com
21 Jul 2003 | chris said...
Or indeed
www.antiquesexchange.com
Then of course the site that lists celebrities and the agents that represent them. Obviously.
www.whorepresents.com
21 Jul 2003 | Jim said...
You're all welcome!
23 Jul 2003 | Marco said...
Perhaps someone in Powergen has played with the NetSol Brainstorm gadget...
