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Soundsquatting: Uncovering the use of homophones in domain squatting [pdf]
- tacon 11y agoI think it is rather poor academic research to mention "utube.com" as soundsquatting on Youtube.com, since it is actually the reverse that is happening. When his traffic "problem" hit the news in 2006, I called and talked to the owner of Utube, the company, for a bit. I'm sure I wasn't alone in advising him to put ads on his pages to recoup some of his loses, but he was really pissed at the disruption to his business that Youtube's popularity was causing. After a few months, he started showing ads with a little button to get to his new site. Now I see he has a pure advertising page. I'm sure Youtube had lots of opportunities to buy his domain, but they didn't want to pay his price, so utube.com shows ads forever. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Tube_%26_Rollform_Equipment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Tube_%26_Rollform_Equ...