UTube Sues YouTube Over Web Traffic
POSTED: Wednesday, November 1, 2006
UPDATED: 4:01 pm EST November 1, 2006
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PERRYSBURG, Ohio -- An industrial products company in Ohio with the domain utube.com is suing video giant YouTube over Web surfers who are mistakenly visiting the utube.com Web site.The Toledo company called Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment -- which has a Web address of utube.com -- recently filed a lawsuit against youtube.com.Universal Tube said its Web site is now jammed with more than 100 times the traffic it used to get.In its lawsuit, the company is demanding that YouTube either change its name or pay so that Universal Tube can create a new Web domain and corporate identity.According to a news release from Universal Tube, the domain name utube.com was registered in 1996.YouTube is based in San Bruno and was recently purchased by Google.Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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