Traffic Overdose

Schon dumm – manche Leute versuchen Domains mit Tippfehlern zu grabben, um sich etwas Traffic von Amazon, Google oder ähnlichen abzuschneiden… Und manche werden einfach davon überrollt…

YouTube is murdering a pipe-equipment business

[…] Universal Tube and Rollerform Equipment Corp, whose site is under the domain utube.com, has been under „siege“ by mistaken visitors thinking that they are visiting the most popular video site on the internet: YouTube.

Girkins says that his site, which has been online since 1994 got 68 million hits in August, which is definitely an overkill, surpassing even the most popular „DOS attackers“ like Digg and Slashdot.

(via Webmaster Blog… via Frank Ristau)