Ryanair is a British budget carrier:
"A website set up to criticise Ryanair has been shut down by an internet watchdog – because it proved so popular it earned its owner money. The founder of IHateRyanair.co.uk – whose strapline was ‘The World’s Most Hated Airline’ – was forced to surrender the web address after the budget carrier complained to the domain name dispute resolution service.
Yesterday the watchdog, called Nominet, ruled that the stinging criticism and passenger ‘horror stories’ published on the site were not sufficient grounds for it to be scrapped. However it ruled that a small profit made by Robert Tyler from sponsored links on the site meant he abused domain name rules.
Disgruntled passengers’ comments have filled the pages of the website since it was set up three years ago by Mr Tyler, of Walthamstow, East London.
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Weird: Criticism is not allowed if you make money out of it! A lot of blogs do a lot of criticizing and also have advertising on them. Are they in trouble? Thus is just a weak excuse to shut down criticism of a very arrogant business.
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He just needs to move it overseas.
"And the sheep go forth believing they are free"
He can criticize Ryanair all he wants, but he can't use their trademarked name in the domain name, or any of their logos or other corporate properties IF he is making money.
Free speech is not the same as Commercial speech.
I will never fly ryanair again, they are the very worst,,screw them.
Correct, Stan. That's my take on it as well.
The verdict (if properly quoted) is badly worded however, and should have mentioned the trademark infringement as the cause for shutting down the site.
RyanAir is an IRISH budget carrier. Its CEO is Michael O'Leary. He's an egomaniac, but sort of likeable. Mr O'Leary is indeed contoversial. He has proposed charging for using the toilet and rumour has it he has had talks with boeing engineers about ripping the seats out of the 737-800 aircraft he uses and replacing them with bar-stool type seats so he can cram more passengers in.
I flew them once from Dublin to Gatwick. All I can say is: It got me there and back.
Check out this little O'Leary theory on budget airlines:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfIY24BErBE
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