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8bitjoystick.com

8BitJoystick.com is a personal blog run by Jacob Metcalf, based in Bremerton, WA, offering "swank and sarcastic writings for nerds." The site targets a tech- and gaming-savvy audience, covering topics across computing, video games, and internet culture. Its linked domains suggest a broad range of interests spanning gadget news, webcomics, and progressive media.

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AboutUs report for 8bitjoystick.com
Unclaimed. No owner has verified domain control for this profile yet. Crawler and archive evidence remain visible, and official facts should be submitted through review.
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Report summary

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Report score

89/100

Strong website report

Launch state

Search eligible

Eligible for launch indexing

Owner status

Claimable

No owner has verified domain control for this profile yet. Crawler and archive evidence remain visible, and official facts should be submitted through review.

Search visibility

Indexable public profile

This crawler-backed profile passed the public publication gate.

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Evidence basis

Authority not scored yet · Clear

Source freshness: 83 days old

Trust signals

1 need attention

Live website checks are useful, but at least one public trust signal needs follow-up before stronger promotion.

Freshness

83 days old

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Ownership

Unclaimed

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Authority and safety snapshot

Authority and safety signals are useful with limits

This report combines public evidence source, live checks, freshness, and ownership status so readers can evaluate the website without treating the score as a popularity rank.

Authority —ClearCoverage shown; confidence not calibrated

Authority basis: Strong profile signal; AI-enriched legacy archive profile; crawler quality is 87/100. No authority score is published yet from report-derived and stored evidence inputs. External evidence used: Open PageRank, RDAP age, DMARC, MX. Missing external inputs: Tranco rank, Threat feed.
Safety band: Clear · Safety 90/100; 1 live trust signal need review. Model band: Clear. New or unclaimed status is not treated as unsafe by itself.

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Score source

Shared v2 model

The report uses the same stored-input model as the profile and directory. Its score, band, reasons and coverage come from that model together.

Score basis

Owner improvement cap

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Trust checks

Current public signals checked for this report.

DNSgood

4 records

The domain resolves through public DNS.

Source: AboutUs public DNS lookup

HTTPSgood

Reachable

The website responded over HTTPS. Checked HTTPS host: www.youtube.com.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

HTTPS destinationunknown

www.youtube.com

HTTPS request for 8bitjoystick.com ended at www.youtube.com. This host is outside the profile domain; check that it is the intended destination. This records the response destination, not an HTML canonical declaration or a configuration diagnosis.

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Page metadatawatch

No title found

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Security headersgood

3/3 present

Checks for HSTS, Content-Security-Policy, and X-Frame-Options headers.

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Breach historygood

No breaches on record

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What should improve before this profile becomes a stronger launch or owner asset.

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Trust checks

Current public signals checked for this report.

DNSgood

4 records

The domain resolves through public DNS.

Source: AboutUs public DNS lookup

HTTPSgood

Reachable

The website responded over HTTPS. Checked HTTPS host: www.youtube.com.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

HTTPS destinationunknown

www.youtube.com

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Page metadatawatch

No title found

AboutUs could not find a meta description in the first page response.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Security headersgood

3/3 present

Checks for HSTS, Content-Security-Policy, and X-Frame-Options headers.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Breach historygood

No breaches on record

Have I Been Pwned has no catalogued breaches for this domain. Absence of a record is not a guarantee that no breach occurred.

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8bitjoystick.com

Owner improvements available

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