The Internet Is A Series Of UTubes (And They're Clogged)
from the ooops dept
So, while you think enviously about the $1.65 billion YouTube snagged from Google (or, as someone pointed out, approximately $3 million per day of their existence), you can feel some sympathy for Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corp -- owners of the site utube.com. Turns out, plenty of people have been hearing the name YouTube and assuming it was UTube. So, those people have been checking out the wrong site... and knocking it completely offline (which is why we won't bother even linking to it now). Of course, the head of Universal Tube knows an opportunity when his web server stats show it to him. He's already turned down a million dollar offer on the domain, and is holding out for at least $2.5 million.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Would sell UTube to google for $5billion
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Yeah
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Re: Yeah
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C'mon, take the money and run.
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I hope this guy gets $10M for the Domain Name, good for him!
I hope Yahoo buys it and redirects to their own.
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People without brains...
They spend over a billion dollars to buy something that has not proven that it's going to be a revenue stream for the long term.
And with the attitude of it's founders (YouTube) I'll bet you that Google made a 1.65 billion dollar investment in something that is destined to fail!
Arrogant people should remember:
May Fortuna Frendo Vos...
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Re: On youtube
WTF do you keep posting that crap for? what do you have diarrhea of the copy/paste?
If you have something to say, then say it, but quit copy/pasting some other news blog you read once.
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Damn i wish i made that much
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what happened
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Update
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