Utube Sues YouTube

An anonymous reader writes "From The Age article: Universal Tube, which sells used machines that make tubes, has said it has lost business because customers have had trouble accessing its site." So now Utube is suing YouTube seeking a cease and desist on the youtube domain. (I wonder if they think Google's pockets might be deeper that the previous owners'.) This again raises the problems of domain names colliding across different industries and countries, and reminds me of the etoys/etoy tussle a few years back. Should domain name simply be exempt from trademark legislation in all countries or is it a legit thing to fight for?"

Comments

Eh?

[Spad]

Remind me to sue my neighbours for their house being #41. People are always knocking on my door (#41a) instead, wasting my time and causing a loss of earnings.

After all, it's clearly their fault that people are idiots.

Re:It's the all encompassing .com that's the probl

[TorKlingberg]

I'd just love to type those long addresses all the time.

Re:It's the all encompassing .com that's the probl

[Anonymous Coward]

So then where does YouTube fit in such a system? Should it be youtube.videosharing.community.com? Youtube.videos.web2.com? I'm not saying it's a bad system, but I think that all the chaos on Usenet (such as the Great Renaming) would show that hierarchies set in stone run inevitably into problems when something brand new is introduced.

Re:obviously

[morgan_greywolf]

The quality of geeks is really declining these days.

You missed a word in that sentence. s/geeks/geeks on Slashdot/

What utube should have done

[slapout]

Redirect everyone coming to their site to a youtube.com video of an advertisement for utube. And in the description say "if you would like to purchase our product, click here". Then people who are really looking for youtube will get there (and see a utube ad). And people who are looking for utube will think they're just watching a utube ad before entering the utube site. Problem solved.

Re:Google Provides Servers?

[Dolly_Llama]

As the market matures, it makes sense to me that business insurance should cover unexpected things like this that impact business.