Gizmodo: motorazr

Motorola vs. Motorazr.com: Round 1 Goes Against Motorola

Jason Chen — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:57:21 EST

Remember the case of Motorola trying to strongarm the Motorazr.com domain from its original owner? Well, the panel assigned to delibrate on the claim has made its decision, and disagreed with Motorola's claims.

The panel said the site was not in "bad faith", designed to direct users to an advertising site, and denied the complaint entirely. It's likely Motorola will appeal, but in the meantime, score one for the little guy. – Jason Chen

motorazr.com vs. Motorola: the verdict is in! [Vincent Nguyen]

Image via Phoenix Wright Objectionator!

Motorola Strongarming Motorazr.com Domain From Owner

Jason Chen — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:40:24 EST

The issue of domain name ownership is a tricky one, especially when it comes to corporations and their desire to "retcon" themselves through lawyers the domains they failed to register when they released a product. Apple is a company that often does this. Now, Motorola's jumping on board.

Vincent of Slashgear registered and set up motorazr.com as a Motorola RAZR community site back in July of '04, a full 11 months before Motorola filed the trademark for "motorazr". Everything was fine until August of '06, when Moto's lawyers decided they wanted the domain, and even offered a piddling amount of $1,500 to get him to go away. When that didn't work, their lawyer was "rude and unprofessional", and now Motorola's going through arbitration with the World Intellectual Property Organization to get the domain.

What are your thoughts? – Jason Chen

Motorola resorts to reverse domain hijacking of motorazr.com [Vincent Nguyen]

T-Mobile Tattoos MOTORAZR V3s

Jason Chen — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:49:41 EDT

Just launched from T-Mobile, these tattooed MOTORAZRs let everyone know that even though they've been around the block a few times, they can still break a pool cue over someone's head with the best of them. Designed by Ami James, the tattoo artist on Miami Ink, the dark grey "Dragon" and the pink "Cherry Blossom" still have the old RAZR V3's VGA camera, but work with T-Mobile's myFaves, which you can read more about here.

T-Mobile still doesn't have the MOTOKRZR, so if you want a RAZR, you're pretty much stuck with these. No word on whether these tattoos can be removed once they get married and have kids. – Jason Chen

Sizemodo: MOTOKRZR K1 vs. MOTORIZR Z3 vs. MOTORAZR V3i

Jason Chen — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:31:52 EDT

In this corner, we have Motorola's newest flip phone, the successor to the popular RAZR, the MOTOKRZR K1! In the opposite corner, we have the venerable MOTORAZR V3i, the phone that's starred in more Entourage episodes than Kevin Dillon! And in the third corner, we've got the dark horse, the upcoming MOTORIZR slider phone.

Which one of these contestants will earn the right to sleep next to your thigh for the next 12 months? Find out in the exciting skinny cat-fight in our triangular ring of death! – Jason Chen

Thanks to Sizeasy!