Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment

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Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation is an American manufacturer and supplier of metal machine tubes and pipes. The company specializes in buying and selling tube mills, pipe mills and rollforming machines. The company was formed in 1985, and is currently based in Perrysburg, Ohio.

Operator of Perrysburg Ohio Warehouse.

Contents 1 Domain name issue 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Domain name issue

This section documents a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses.

In 1996, the company purchased as its domain name, utube.com.

In August 2006, the company's website received 68 million "hits" on its website which led to its computer servers crashing. Many of the users intended to go the video archive website YouTube.com and were misdirected to the company's utube.com instead.

The company became known to much wider audiences because it's domain name utube.com (or UTUBE) appears to be very similar to youtube.com (or YouTube, see YouTube sued by sound-alike site, [1]).

On October 30, 2006, the company took legal action against YouTube over the website confusion. The case is still pending.^{[1] [2] [3]}

[edit] See also

• YouTube

[edit] References

1. ^ Hutcheon, Sephen. "Policeman's YouTube email goes to utube", The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved on 2006-12-06.
2. ^ Olson, Parmy. "UTube Vs. YouTube: It Gets Ugly", Forbes. Retrieved on 2006-12-06.
3. ^ Dublin, Nancy Gohring. "YouTube faces lawsuit from holder of similar domain", Computerworld New Zealand. Retrieved on 2006-12-06.

[edit] External links

• Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Official Web-site
• Court lawsuit documents at The Smoking Gun website page