TOLEDO, Ohio – YouTube's enormous popularity has created a big headache for another "utube" — a company that sells used machines that make tubes. Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corp.'s Web site, utube.com, was inaccessible for most of the week ...

Ralph Girkins, CEO of Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment, has been doing business online since the mid-1990s and has fielded angry e-mails before. But nothing prepared him for the rant that landed in his in box last October: “Where the f— are all ...

How does it feel to have the same name as a company that's wildly popular with millions of people? Ask Ralph Girkins of UTube. That's UTube, as in Universal Tube—the heavy equipment refurbishing company outside of Toledo, Ohio. Not the Internet rage ...

Call it opportunistic or just plain unfortunate. The folks at Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment have had such a tricky time with their Web site that they're now suing YouTube.com. It appears the company's Web site, utube.com, has received so many ...

TOLEDO, Ohio – A company that shut down its Web site because it was overwhelmed by millions of people looking for YouTube has sued the online video-sharing portal. Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corp. said the cost of hosting its Web site — utube ...

Think you've seen enough articles about the potential of YouTube getting sued? Make room for one more. Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corp., whose Web site is … wait for it… utube.com, is a company with 17 employees that sells "used machines that ...

A dealer of used tube and pipe equipment filed a lawsuit this week hoping to strip YouTube Inc. of its domain name. Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment Corp. in Perrysburg, Ohio, said that confusion between its Web site, Utube.com, and YouTube.com is ...

YouTube's popularity is proving to be a headache for a company with a similar Web address. Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment is suing the viral video site recently acquired by Google, according to a news report on WTOL-TV in Toledo, Ohio. The lawsuit ...

Most companies would welcome 70 million people visiting their website every month, but for one small US company selling secondhand tube and pipe machinery, the effects of being mistaken for the hugely popular YouTube have been so disastrous that it is ...

The stand-off between the distributor with 10 million subscribers and the content company controlling premium sports TV rights continues.