Ryanair wins control of ihateryanair.co.uk due to advertising on site

[pctech]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/14/ryanair_trademark/


The law is an ass

[Technical Ben]

Don't get me wrong, I'm totally against copyrighting single words such as "one" or "edge"*. Even one electric car company is trying to patent the sentence "range anxiety" or "rubbish electric cars" so no one can say bad things about their cars!
However, "ryanair" is a registered, and unique trademark. It's the law working for a change. It would protect the likes of IDNet too. You can have a website called "rubbish irish airlines" or "Useless Telecoms". If the website wishes to continue, they can, just under a generic name. Google will still find them though! It indexes via subject a lot more than title now a days. That's to stop all the "desney123.com" websites linking to porn or other insidious material.  

[Edit] Just seen he broke the terms of the appointed expert for Nominet. They wrote the rules (or EULA or whatever) for registering domain names. The owner broke them, so he looses the site. Not even any law involved. I'm sure Ryan Air could get lawyers involved if needed.


*See the latest patent troll stories

[Gary]

Ryanair are really the ultimate low price/low life airline, No matter how cheap the flights I would never fly with them.

[pctech]

I flew twice Luton-Dublin return but never again.

Next time I go its Aer Lingus for me.

[john]

Ryanair are really the ultimate low price/low life airline, No matter how cheap the flights I would never fly with them.

Although I've never flown with Ryanair their reputation is such that I wouldn't risk booking a flight with them anyway.

Because their reputation is so bad I don't think there needs to be a website  to say so anyway.

I've recently flown with EasyJet, Monarch and BMI Baby and they were all okay.

[.Griff.]

I've flown with them four times now, the first being as a result of our usual route/airline being unavailable.

I'll be honest and admit I was dreading it but every flight we've had with them has been fine. Granted we witnessed people upset when their bag was refused for being too large and people got frustrated when their bag were weighed but quite frankly they should have checked before they got to the airport. I checked and made sure my bags were fine so anyone else can!

Flybe on the other hand were shocking.

[Lance]

I flew to Breman and back with Ryanair earlier this year and they were faultless and the staff friendly.