gootube.com domain owner hits the lottery!
 

Just out of curiosity, after the big deel between google and youtube I checked to see who owned "gootube.com" and some lucky man registered it back in 2005...

according to Alexa gootube.com has a traffic ranking of 4,415,814, but it's rank today is 19,287 and has been hot ever since the aquisition...bottom line this guy has a valuable name on his hands...

hmm, well alexa isnt always right..

lol - I checked as well.

alexa is right most of the time... :)

Me too. :D You just never know, do you?

He's gonna be rich-as-fuck!

how about yougle.com =]

fuckin a

You're assuming he won't get it taken from him.

Anyway seems like googtube.com would be better.

sorry, useless domain

Goo = You

googtube sort of misses the point.

Too many legal issues. Who wants to do battle with a Goliath? I know I don't.

they cant do nothing to him because of his registration date

lol i just checked it too :)

he bought it before the merger so there's really not a damn thing they can do except make him THINK they can and pressure him into handing it over which he most likely will do

ok, can someone please explain to me why do you think the domain gootube.com suddenly has some value?

ok, google bought you tube, but the name remains youtube.com

Well who knows maybe they decide to change a name to gootube.

good for him

Mr. Romance

exactly! they bought the brand, and it will stay youtube

for the ones that are ready to take the risk of getting sued:
you-tube.com seems to be still available...

I wish
Registrant:
YouTube Inc.
71 East 3rd Ave
San Mateo, Wyoming 94401
United States

there must be something wrong with http://instantdomainsearch.com/... PLUS i am getting a DNS error when trying to access it...

thats what i think

and no, gootube.com is not a good typo of yourtube.com

there are many good ones, but its not one of them

i think the surge in traffic might be from when the drudgereport.om listed the new sites name as "gootube"...millions of people might have then put that in their browser! ???

im thinking he wasnt thinking about google and youtube when he bought it?!

Exactly. It's clearly some sort of gay fetish site.

Whhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?!?!!
(Breaks out into GFY song)

Can I get a whaaaaaaaa whaaaaaaaaaaaaa woot woot...

nah, look at the stats for Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation.
Holders of uTube.com

Their ranks and vews have skyrocketed since the beginning of this year. Nice big spike last week also (dunno why)

A traffic rank of 9k, they were a nobody (according to Alexa) last year, yet they've been onlice since 1996.

LOL, just checked - they're actually offline (prolly due to too much traffic), Jeeze, don't they realise they can send that traffic to somewhere useful????

because of the google/youtube merger, people started calling it gootube...

Yeah and so did CNN, Reuters etc.....

lol. who cares about gootube. the site will not change names. it is youtube and will stay youtube

Well, congrats to him then.

Tons of news sites and tech blogs started calling it GooTube. So naturally, people are looking up GooTube.

"Sir! Put..........down.............the...............pi pe.............everything is going to be.............O...K..........."

:upsidedow

gootube just sounds dirty :)

I was thinking it sounds like tire repair product.

yes if that's true then it's worth about 50k now.