October 12th, 2006
UTube.com Brought Down by YouTube.com
By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Ah, so now we know why Apple is suing people left and right over usage of the term “pod”. It’s to protect the other party … considering how this site has been unusable since the Google - YouTube deal was announced.
Utube.com, a Web site owned by a supplier of used tubes and pipes, has been swamped with visitors confusing it with online video service YouTube Inc. and has been barely operational since Google Inc. said on Monday it would buy YouTube for $1.65 billion. Utube.com is the sixth most popular U.S. manufacturing Web site, ahead of Whirlpool Corp., according to data provided by HitWise. Source: Yahoo! News
We Say: OK, now I see that Apple’s being a good guy in these types of lawsuits. According to the owner of the site, Ralph Girkins, an intermediary offered $1 million for the domain, but he was holding out for $2.5 million - $3 million. Hey, if his site keeps getting brought down to his knees, he might go for the lower offer (note this offer is unconfirmed by YouTube). 
Alice Adds: What about EweTube and PornoTube? Here come the lawsuits and craziness. Anyone remember Booble, Droogle, and Gizzoogle?
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shaun says:
It doesn’t look at though utube.com or utube videos http://utube-videos.com utube site is down?
October 14th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
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July 15th, 2008 at 10:54 pm