Saturday, January 16, 2010
Question 508
Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation is an American manufacturer and supplier of metal machine tubes and pipes, founded in 1985. The company specializes in buying and selling tube mills, pipe mills and rollforming machines. The company is currently based in Perrysburg, Ohio. In August 2006, the company received 68 million "hits" on its website which led to its computer servers crashing. Why did its website receive so many hits?
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Their site is called www.utube.com and many people who wanted to go to www.youtube.com eneded up going there
The company became known to much wider audiences because its original domain name uTube.com appeared to be very similar to YouTube.com. The company had purchased the domain name in 1996. In August 2006, the company received 68 million "hits" on its website which led to its computer servers crashing. Many of the users intended to go to the video archive website YouTube, but typed the homophonic "utube.com" into their browser instead. On October 30, 2006, the company took legal action against YouTube over the website confusion
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