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Now the Ohio firm has filed papers at a district court demanding the video site, bought by Google in October for $US1.65bn, stop using its youtube.com domain or else pay the company's costs for setting up at a different online location. Owning a domain name bearing resemblance to that of a high-traffic destination is usually seen as an asset for some entrepreneurial folk. Utube's predicament was recently called a "<a href="http://mashable.com/2006/10/13/utube-youtube/">lucky break</a>". But company president Ralph Girkins told the AP the deluge of traffic - 68m hits in August alone - had knocked his site offline, causing the 17-employee business to lose trade. "We've had to move our site five times in an effort to stay ahead of the youtube.com visitors," he said. "[But] we were there first by 10 years."Girkins previously told CNN the situation was "<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/12/news/companies/utube/index.htm">killing us</a>", but was recently reported to be seeking and receiving offers in the region of US$1m for the domain name. The genuine YouTube receives around 72m visitors per month. What do you think? Which mis-typed domains would you like to own? And what would you do with utube.com if you owned it?

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<img alt="uTube sues YouTube" height="51" src="http://e-consultancy.lemonfoundation.com/logos/youtube%20logo.jpg" width="130" />An American tubes and pipes manufacturer whose website is registered at utube.com is suing YouTube after being deluged with traffic from millions of users mistakenly seeking the video sharing network. <a href="http://www.utube.com/contact_us.asp">Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment Corporation</a> said the cost of hosting utube.com had skyrocketed in the last couple of months thanks to the word-of-mouth popularity of youtube.com.

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