"Help! YouTube is killing my business!"
Filed in archive Fun by Marc on October 20, 2006

, and archived DiaRIAA Fun.One casualty of the YouTube phenomenon is UTube.com, the web domain for Universal Tube and Rollerform Equipment Corp. in Ohio.
"It's killing us," said Ralph Girkins, president and owner of the 22-year-old business. "All my worldwide reps use our Web site. Customers all over the world use it to bring up photos of the machinery, descriptions and specifications there."
The web site received 68 million hits in August. At the time this article was written the web site displays the following message "Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)".
In a Google search for "utube," Universal Tube does show up first. However second is a YouTube listing for "music video lazyboy-underwear goes inside the pants."
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