Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment

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Not to be confused with YouTube or U-tube.

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

[edit] Domain name issue

The company became known to much wider audiences because its original domain name uTube.com appeared to be very similar to YouTube.com.[1] The company had purchased the domain name in 1996. 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 to the video archive website YouTube, but typed the homophonic "utube.com" into their browser instead. On October 30, 2006, the company took legal action against YouTube over the website confusion. The case is still pending.[2][3][4][5] The company has since moved their website to utubeonline.com.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "YouTube sued by sound-alike site", BBC News, 2006-11-02. 
  2. ^ Hutcheon, Stephen. "Policeman's YouTube email goes to utube", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2006-11-06. Retrieved on 2006-12-06. 
  3. ^ Olson, Parmy. "UTube Vs. YouTube: It Gets Ugly", Forbes, 2006-11-02. Retrieved on 2006-12-06. 
  4. ^ Dublin, Nancy Gohring. "YouTube faces lawsuit from holder of similar domain", Computerworld New Zealand, 2006-11-06. Retrieved on 2006-12-06. 
  5. ^ Utube v. YouTube Information Page. Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation.

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