HOT! The Story of how RIM Got www.InsideBlackBerry.com for Their Official Blog

caution_tape NOTE: This is some pretty scary news for companies which have “BlackBerry” anywhere in your domain name… “Berry” seems fine since RIM was denied all of those. I guess RIM thinks they own every “Berry”.

When RIM originally launched their blog, Inside BlackBerry, they did not actually own www.insideblackberry.com. Personally I thought they were crazy to call their blog by a name they did not control but I guess I was wrong. Turns out that RIM had something else in mind.

In a complaint RIM made to the World Intellectual Property Organization, RIM claimed that Georges Elias had registered over 111 domain names using the word BlackBerry in them using Godaddy. RIM filed the complaint and won 101 names that have BlackBerry in them and lost the 10 names that had just Berry according to DomainNameWire. Looks like RIM really does own the word BlackBerry.

Its actually kind of sleazy how RIM went about this. Elias claims that RIM used Tucows Yummy Names division to approach him about purchasing his domain name www.insideblackberry.com. They never told Tucows or Elias that they were actually gathering evidence for their case against Elias. The arbitrators did not seem to care about that.

I just love some of these domain names that Elias registered:

  • alwaysbetonblackberry.com
  • blackberryonice.com
  • onceyougoblackberryyouwillnevergobackberry.com

While I love the fact that a domain squatter got quashed I still think it is kind of sleazy on RIM’s part.
What do you think?

Check out the full list after the jump or you can read the full complaint at this link

1. <alwaysbetonblackberry.com> 2. <alwaysblackberry.com>
3. <babablackberry.com> 4. <backinblackberry.com>
5. <bolderblackberry.com> 6. <betonblackberry.com>
7. <intheblackberry.com> 8. <basicblackberry.com>
9. <blackberryandcoke.com> 10. <blackberryandroll.com>
11. <blackberrybeauties.com> 12. <blackberrybeauty.com>
13. <blackberrybootcamp.com> 14. <blackberrycardreader.com>
15. <blackberrychic.com> 16. <blackberrycouture.com>
17. <blackberrycreditcardswipe.com> 18. <blackberrydad.com>
19. <blackberrydads.com> 20. <blackberrydiscount.com>
21. <blackberrydog.com> 22. <blackberrydummy.com>
23. <blackberryfighter.com> 24. <blackberrygreen.com>
25. <blackberryinside.com> 26. <blackberryisbeautiful.com>
27. <blackberryisthenewgreen.com> 28. <blackberrykid.com>
29. <blackberrykids.com> 30. <blackberrylabel.com>
31. <blackberrymind.com> 32. <blackberrymoms.com>
33. <blackberryonice.com> 34. <blackberryphd.com>
35. <blackberryplatinum.com> 36. <blackberrypreorder.com>
37. <blackberryrising.com> 38. <blackberryshot.com>
39.<blackberryshots.com> 40. <blackberrystory.com>
41. <blackberryswipe.com> 42. <blackberrytimes.com>
43. <blackberryup.com> 44. <blackberryvogue.com>
45. <blackberrywoman.com> 46. <blackberryxg.com>
47. <busyblackberry.com> 48. <byblackberry.com>
49. <bzberry.com> 50. <bzblackberry.com>
51. <conblackberry.com> 52. <newidenblackberry.com>
53. <doyoublackberry.com> 54. <drinkblackberry.com>
55. <elblackberry.com> 56. <ezblackberry.com>
57. <foreverblackberry.com> 58. <fullcontactblackberry.com>
59. <happyblackberry.com> 60. <hechoenblackberry.com>
61. <hookedonblackberry.com> 62. <howdoyoublackberry.com>
63. <iamblackberry.com> 64. <idenblackberry.com>
65. <inablackberry.com> 66. <insideblackberry.com>
67. <isblackberry.com> 68. <jackblackberry.com>
69. <johnnywalkerblackberry.com> 70. <madeinblackberry.com>
71. <magicblackberry.com> 72. <mattblackberry.com>
73. <matteblackberry.com> 74. <meninblackberry.com>
75. <newnextelblackberry.com> 76. <professorblackberry.com>
77. <nextelblackberrydeals.com> 78. <nowblackberry.com>
79. <onceblackberry.com> 80.<onceyougoblackberryyouwillnevergobackberry.com>
81.<onceyouvehadblackberryyoullnevergobackberry.com> 82. <platinumblackberry.com>
83. <powerblackberry.com> 84. <poweredbyblackberry.com>
85. <smarterblackberry.com> 86. <sprintblackberrydeals.com>
87. <superblackberry.com> 88. <4gblackberry.com>
89. <whatisblackberry.com> 90. <withblackberry.com>
91. <blackberriesonblondes.com> 92. <hookedonblackberries.com>
93. <berrymom.com> 94. <berrynegro.com>
95. <berrydelsol.com> 96. <hisberry.com>
97. <iqberry.com> 98. <mommyberry.com>
99. <nextelberry.com> 100. <sheberry.com>
101. <verdeberry.com> 102. <copberry.com>
103. <berryverde.com> 104. <obamaberry.com>
105. <obamaberry.info> 106. <obamaberry.net>
107. <obamaberry.org> 108. <blackberrito.com>
109. <blackjackberry.com> 110. <neverbackberry.com>
111. <nevergobackberry.com>
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