You can still hate Ryanair

I have some good news and bad news today. On the good news side it is ok to hate Ryanair and run a website with this as your sole purpose. The bad news is that you are not allowed make money from it.

This week Robert Tyler, a Londoner who set up I hate Ryanair will have to hand over the domain name to Ryanair, after a judgement by Nominet, the British internet domain name registry company who manage the 8 million plus “.uk” domain names.

Tyler though has moved the site to ihateryanair.org and you can still merrily check out his many comments and opinions on Ryanair.

Nominet found that Tyler had earned £322 from commercial links published on the site and this is the problem. If you want to run what Nominet calls a “criticism website”, (nice name isn’t it), you cannot be “tainted by commercial concerns”. Strangely though it is perfectly ok for Ryanair to make extra money for having a maze of a website with veiled charges and levies.

Don’t worry though if you thought you would be deprived of anti-Ryanair bile online. As well as the I hate Ryanair migrating to the .org registry you can also check out Ryanair Sucks and the more sombre Ryanair Campaign.

Don’t miss the Ryanair videos on you-tube, best accessed through the Ryanair Campaign website.

Who would have thought that Ryanair, whose publicity style is at best abrasive, were so thin skinned when it came to criticism of their operations. Finally, I wish to say that I was not tainted by commercial concerns while writing this article. I was though thinking a lot about chocolate, is this ok?