I hope utube slapped some affiliate banners and links on their website. They might as well make some quick cash out of it.
Well for our class of "business", it's a good thing.. but for a multi-million dollar company that is established in it's industry for tubing and metals.. it is bad when your long established and potentially new customers can't access your website. Junk traffic (e.g., teens looking for YouTube) are worthless and merely a drain on resources. so no, it's not stupid, I think they have a genuine concern for their proprietary website.
This is BS. First of all, 70,000 visitors per day can generate some serious cash. Second of all, how can they sue Google because people are idiots and don't know how to type the correct url? So now Google has to police what people type in the privacy of their own homes? How stupid is this. I hope the Google lawyers beat the crap out of these morons in court.
It sounds like thy don't know crap about SEO or the value of traffic. They just make stuff and want to sell the stuff they make. The website is a cost for them, not an investment. 70,000 unique visitors a day could be a shot especially if they don't capitalize on it.
70,000 non-business teens do NOT generate cash for a steel bending service company lol... just suck up bandwidth. but ya, its not really google's fault... but in some ways there should be a resolution available. I think this case has profound implications eitherway. if google wins, then its a shot in the dark at how one company can inadvertantly harm another if google loses, it opens up the world to very strange lawsuits.
What I don't understand is why they're not suing UNIVERSALTUBE.COM which is more of an infringement on their business name....seeing as how it's another business name Universal Tube. Pure grandstanding, pointless as it is.
no, because when I was a metals purchasing mgr, we always referred to them as utube.. it's how they are known in the metals industry.
Actually they are a superb company. Don't allow your google biases to betray common sense. UTube has a legitimate business concern that is directly attributable to YouTube having not so bright users. True, it isn't YouTube's fault.. but this case and these types of situations need to be resolved and solutions found before it becomes a truly major headache. People in this thread say "they should monetize it" or "their idiots for not parking it!", but thats merely ignorance of business speaking. A multi-million dollar company does NOT engage in parking when their business concernes are metals and their customers. It is ignorant and foolish to think differently. I don't know the answer on how to resolve this, but you all act like it's Utube's fault when in reality it is YouTubes customers causing harm to a legit company that actually makes a profit.
utube.com was registered 9 years before youtube.com They have legitimate claim to a distortion of their brand. If they are interested in a sale of the name Google will probably end up buying it because they risk loosing the youtube.com name to utube.
I can already see Google losing its domain cause ogle.com was registered in 1995. dPoint.com was registered a year before digitalpoint.com. We don't want to make them angry...
Theres a big difference here, nobody is confusing ogle.com for google.com and nobody is confusing dpoint.com for digitalpoint.com. Ogle can still retain their established brandname without any confusion with Google, and above all they are neither incorporated nor trademarked so technically don't have any brand that can be stolen. Same goes for dPoint it cannot be confused for digitalpoint, and its not incorporated, thus has no trademark or brand name that can be distorted. Utube is Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corp. They are known in their industry as UTube, which as identical pronunciation as YouTube, this is causing some confusion, as to what they are selling. This furthermore takes up system resources and adds cost to UTube's hosting bill when 70K users daily who are not and have no potential to be customers use up their bandwidth because another company decided to create a site with a similar name. I guarantee if I purchased Googol.com today and made a site that was bigger then Google.com even in a completely unrelated field, I would get sued by Google.