Comments on: Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation (UTube.com) Hot Steamy Erotica and MORE… http://www.johnon.com/198/utubecom.html I think there's an opinion on that subject lying around here somewhere.... Fri, 24 May 2013 15:17:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: johnon.com - John Andrews - » A Windfall for Juiced.com ? http://www.johnon.com/198/utubecom.html#comment-3362 Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:09:29 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/198/utubecom.html#comment-3362 [...] So now we will have a YouTube.com (not utube.com) competitor named joost.com (pronounced juiced.com) and no doubt encountering the same traffic confusion that Universal Tube experienced but  hasn’t handle well. This time, Juiced.com is already a parked page so no need to destory an existing corporate image with erotic spam links, eh? Topical Tags:public relations [...] […] So now we will have a YouTube.com (not utube.com) competitor named joost.com (pronounced juiced.com) and no doubt encountering the same traffic confusion that Universal Tube experienced but  hasn’t handle well. This time, Juiced.com is already a parked page so no need to destory an existing corporate image with erotic spam links, eh? Topical Tags:public relations […]

]]> by: Scott http://www.johnon.com/198/utubecom.html#comment-1872 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:30:43 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/198/utubecom.html#comment-1872 Well done observation. I was thinking much of the same today after reading TW. Even if there was an inkling of going in this direction, it seems like they could have created a really good building supply/pipe/whatever resource. Aside from diluting their brand name... and I'm not a lawyer but... If they put up an engine / search service like this, it may show that they are temporarily trying to make a buck off of the brand confusion. Which may make them loose in a lawsuit. Although it may seem very similar on the surface, it seems like it would be more defensible to put up a tube/construction/whatever supply engine/resource as it could be argued that perhaps they were going to do that anyway, before the youtube confusion. Perhaps simply to provide a resource to customers. But any judge/lawyer/seo/etc. that knows a small bit about the internet, can probably see, as you do, that this looks like an attempt to market based on the temporary URL confusion rather than something normal/expected as part of a site's marketing/evolution over time. Well done observation. I was thinking much of the same today after reading TW. Even if there was an inkling of going in this direction, it seems like they could have created a really good building supply/pipe/whatever resource.

Aside from diluting their brand name… and I’m not a lawyer but…

If they put up an engine / search service like this, it may show that they are temporarily trying to make a buck off of the brand confusion. Which may make them loose in a lawsuit.

Although it may seem very similar on the surface, it seems like it would be more defensible to put up a tube/construction/whatever supply engine/resource as it could be argued that perhaps they were going to do that anyway, before the youtube confusion.

Perhaps simply to provide a resource to customers. But any judge/lawyer/seo/etc. that knows a small bit about the internet, can probably see, as you do, that this looks like an attempt to market based on the temporary URL confusion rather than something normal/expected as part of a site’s marketing/evolution over time.

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