I for one am guilty of accidentally typing utube.com looking for youtube.com. If anything, this is a bonus for Universal Tube considering the extra exposure they get from stupid URL mistakes. That's the only reason I actually know who they are and what they make.
Heaven forbid someone with the URL mcarrie.com sue mariahcarrie.com because of a name clash. If the company went to great lengths to create a truly unique name (ie Kodak, Xerox) then, ya, this would be a problem, but it's not. Maybe Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation (utube.com) should be dueling it out with Universal Tube Inc. (universaltube.com) instead of YouTube for name clashes.
But of course, if Google's policy of 'no evil' holds firm, then they should consider renaming the youtube.com domain to gtube.com or gootube.com and use the youtube.com domain the same way FireFox the company and FireFox the browser share the firefox.com page to redirect visitors properly.
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I for one am guilty of accidentally typing utube.com looking for youtube.com. If anything, this is a bonus for Universal Tube considering the extra exposure they get from stupid URL mistakes. That's the only reason I actually know who they are and what they make.
Heaven forbid someone with the URL mcarrie.com sue mariahcarrie.com because of a name clash. If the company went to great lengths to create a truly unique name (ie Kodak, Xerox) then, ya, this would be a problem, but it's not. Maybe Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation (utube.com) should be dueling it out with Universal Tube Inc. (universaltube.com) instead of YouTube for name clashes.
But of course, if Google's policy of 'no evil' holds firm, then they should consider renaming the youtube.com domain to gtube.com or gootube.com and use the youtube.com domain the same way FireFox the company and FireFox the browser share the firefox.com page to redirect visitors properly.