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Dave Mellors

Youtube, utube, ewetube and even huetube

The BBC posted an item on Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment owning utube.com and getting so many hits that it causes the server to crash and its costing them a fortune. It got us thinking at work as to how many other companies are suffering the same problem.

So, how many youtube sounding domain names can you think off? How many of them are registered?

Well there are:-

  • ewetube.com - Which has 3 blog entries about sheep on it.
  • huetube.com - RFID stuff.
  • hughtube.com - registered but nothing there.
  • jewtube.com - One of those PITA search pages where the domain might be for sale.
  • duetube.com - Another PITA search page
  • dewtube.com - Parked page
  • mootube.com - A retired site that was about cows?
Anyway, its just goes to show practically any web site domain you can think off has already been taken. How else do you think that I ended up with wahooga.com - it was the only one still available!!
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About Dave Mellors

I work for Red Gate Software in Cambridge, UK as part of the technical services team. This is my personal blog and so carries my own personal views which could vary from the views and opinions of my employer. I am passionate about IT and would like to change the way that people think about the IT industry and the people that work in it. Particularly those who work in the support teams.
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