Google trying to steal sheikh Yusuf Estez website - www.YoutubeIslam.com

GOOGLE is trying to take our website YOUTUBEISLAM from us to make money and spread evil‏

Bismillah Rahman Raheem
Salam alaykum (peace be upon you),
I need your help, inshallah. Please do something for me and for Islam right now, inshalllah. First, read this and then join me and those who believe in Allah - to stop a very horrible crime about to be committed by some very powerful and forceful people. Help me put this information all over the Internet and around the world - we can do it, inshallah.

Let me start at the beginning . . .

Can you imagine my shock when I opened up an email telling me our website domain name (YOUTUBEISLAM.COM) is being taken over by GOOGLE and their video site - YOUTUBE?
Here is more or less what we were told:

NOTICE: Effective August 5th, 2009 Google (owner of YouTube.com) will take over your domain name: YOUTUBEISLAM.COM.

Although we have purchased the name "YOUTUBEISLAM.COM" and have renewed for several years through GODADDY.COM it seems GOOGLE has enough influence to just simply take our domain name from us - and by the way, we have even paid for it all the way through to next year.
First, their lawyers contacted us saying they were going to take our domain because we copied their logo. We didn't even come close to their logo. (look for yourself www.YOUTUBEISLAM.com/images/logo.gif)
They next came up with saying our name was too similar to their name. We changed the name and the layout to read:
Yo Utu Beis Lam.com and we even registered that as a trade name.
We changed the logo and the images to reflect the new name.
They said they went into "arbitration" (of course we were not invited to that meeting) and then our registrar (GODADDY.COM) notified us they are "transferring" our domain name over to GOOGLE.
We have always maintained the highest of standards on our site - We never allowed any videos with inappropriate material. We did not allow videos that insulted or put down other religions. No dating or suggestive materials. No bad language. Only topics fit for all the family.
We paid for the bandwidth from our own pockets to make sure everything was always as it should be without having people click and wind up on websites attacking beliefs or making fun of believers and certainly nothing to hurt people's feelings.
Above all, we did not put up any ads (especially not GOOGLE ADS) on our site.
(Could this be why they want it so bad?)
Or is it just so they can advertise their thousands of customers who would be happy to introduce thousands of paying advertisers to ways of entering into the homes of trusting Muslims who will think the website still belongs to Yusuf Estes and his dawah team?
Maybe they just don't like Islam?
Or possibily they don't like seeing so many new people entering Islam from our work?

Why does GOOGLE - a company who bought YOUTUBE for billions of dollars - want to take away our little website?

Good question.

I think you know the answer.

But do we have to let them do this without at least telling others about the unjust way of dealing of these people?
Are we just going to sit there and do nothing, while they destroy our work, our efforts, our viewers trust and above all - destroy the chance for many people to know the truth about real Islam in simple English language.

We don't have to.

We can make a difference, maybe even stop these cowards. Let's join together, all around the world and make a difference.
Let's tell everyone what is going on and what they can do to help...

1. Get a good copy of this page and make sure it is easy to read
2. copy it
3. Make sure to mail it out to everyone and ask them to do the same
4. Send text messages - Like this: "Google trying to steal Yusuf Estes website - www.YoutubeIslam.com Help us stop them - www.GuideUS.TV for details"
5. Call people you know, or fax them, and tell them the same basic statement, asking them to share this message in every way possible.
6. Send regular mail to Google ask them not to steal our only ad-free, family video website and leave it for us to use.
7. Email the people at Google and tell them we all use their other services and appreciate the good things they offer for people to use, but please let us keep our family oriented website for true Islam in English.
8. Send faxes to Google and ask them to do the same thing.
9. Contact the local newspaper, the TV and radio people and tell them we are not happy with what GOOGLE is doing to our website for true Islam.
10. Remind everyone to do this each and every day until the news people pick up this story and it is heard around the world. Do it every day.
11. Tell everyone about our live broadcasts on our other websites and how important it is for us to have our own TV station in America - for Muslims to have a voice. A voice for Islam.

And by the way - on Sunday (today) we have a live broadcast on the Internet to tell everyone about all of this. It will be at 2 PM our time (EST) and will include Mutahhir Sabree myself and others.

Here is the site - link will be there, inshallah, to direct everyone to our program.
www.GuideUS.TV

12. Pray to Almighty Allah and beg Him to give victory for His deen and His message in English.

Thank you and may Allah Bless you and your family and make your efforts work for good for you and for all of us, ameen.
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As regards all the material - we are keeping all of it - and we will be making it available on our other websites, inshallah. Either of the follow:
1. www.GuideUS.TV
2. www.BridgeToFaith.com
3. www.WatchIslam.com

Make dua and ask Allah to keep this site and domain for His Sake, ameen.
Jazakallah khair was salam alaykum,
Yusuf Estes

www.YOUTUBEISLAM.com (while it lasts) - Article on this site: www.IslamNewsroom.com

AN OPEN LETTER TO BELIEVERS EVERYWHERE

From: Yusuf Estes, director of www.SHAREISLAM.com and many more websites in English for Muslims ...

...Salam alaykum (peace to all who seek truth and guidance from Almighty God)
Many of you are already aware, Google and YOUTUBE have declared an "Internet War" against our Islamic dawah, attacking our video site. We are the latest victim of their agression - www.YOUTUBEISLAM.com
We bought the rights to this name from Godaddy.com along with a number of other names several years ago and paid a lot of money for software, development, graphic design and advertising (on GOOGLE ADS) and of course, prayed a lot to Allah to give us a chance to have a nice, clean video website where all people could go to upload, share and enjoy English videos from the Muslim perspective, while recognizing the rights of other people as well.
Our websites do not allow anyone to post or upload derogatory or defaming content, nor do we allow advertising, promoting haram (forbidden) things, like sexual content, violence, alcohol, drugs or any harmful videos. All of this has been in our "Rules and Regulations" since we started our sites. You may know we also have www.ChatIslam.com and you will find 11 similar rules posted there as well.
Now why would anyone want to take away a website like this? A place where millions of visitors go on a regular basis to watch and enjoy "Ad-Free" pages?
"Why?" - Indeed - you already know the answer...
Google (YOUTUBE is owned by Googel) is trying to take our website domain name YOUTUBEISLAM on August 5 without even going through legal proceedings. They did it by going to an arbitration company (not by legal proceedings) they have obtained control over our website domain - YOUTUBEISLAM.COM -
This means - right at the time of Ramadan - they are going to have possession of the number one video upload site for English speaking Muslims - that is, the number one that has never had Google Ads and never permitted uploads of videos attacking Islam or the beautiful teachings of Islam.
Maybe you are not too busy to help us do someting about this - inshallah.
Would you just do three things, to help all of us, inshallah?
1. Pray to Allah to make something good come out of all of this, ameen.
2. Click these three links to get a better idea of what is really going on with the Internet and the people who control it:
A: www.IslamNewsroom.com - you will find the articles there
B: www.TUBEIslam.com - this is our replacement site and by clicking it you will be helping to raise the status in the search engines (even in Google - LOL)
C: www.GuideUS.TV - See our latest effort from bringing Islam in English to broadcast satellite television in the United States and Canada
3. Send a "copy" or "forward" this email to everyone you know and ask them kindly, to do the same thing for the sake of Allah and the future of Muslims on the Internet.
Thank you and may Allah reward you and increase you in all good in this life and the Next Life, ameen.
Jazakallah khair was salam alaykum,
Yusuf Estes - Director of www.ShareIslam.com