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Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment’s website, utube.com, was inaccessible for most of the week, overwhelmed by millions of people looking for the popular online video site.

The company … got 68 million hits on its site in August, making it one of the most popular manufacturing websites.

The site shut down last weekend just before Google announced plans Monday to buy YouTube for $1.65 billion. A move to a new server didn’t help, but by late Thursday Universal Tube’s site was back up after the company added more capacity.

“We couldn’t work on it, couldn’t do anything,” Girkins said Friday. At least 50 customers called during the week to point out the problem, he said.

…The company is looking to sell the Web address and find a new home for its website even though the company uses the utube.com name to advertise to customers overseas, Girkins said.

I wish I had this problem. If they had recognized the opportunity this problem presented they could have made thousands upon thousands in Google Adsense revenues. $1000 a day on a site with that many hits is not out of the question, and thats probably a conservative estimate.

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