Utube sued YouTube

The American plumbing company, whose full name is Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation, has been in trouble because of its overlap with the emerging video sharing site. 10 years of peaceful harassment forced Utube to file a lawsuit.

Universal Tube is now in first place by typing utube ( Source: VNE ) Utube asks the court to force YouTube to stop using youtube.com or pay Universal Tube a fee for the new domain name.

The search "incident" began in August last year, when utube.com received 68 million hits.

" We had to move the site 5 times to stand on YouTube's position on the search results table ," said Ralph Girkins, President of Utube. "The number of visitors to our site is so great that over the past 2 months, the cost of hosting rent has increased tremendously ."

Girkins said the company is planning to sell this web address and find "new home" for their news site.

Utube was founded in 1985, currently has 17 employees and its annual turnover is USD 12 million.