Thanks to my fan Charon QC -who crafts his excellent blog without the aid of blogging software -for his kind comments about Binary Law.

In the same post he picks up on Geeklawyer’s rant about Sir Stelios (Parental Advisory: includes **** – look away now) and points to the Wikipedia entry for the said Greek-Cypriot, which includes the following paragraph illustrating how difficult Mr Easy is

He continues to receive unfavourable publicity for a policy of attempting to claim all company names/web URL’s containing the word “easy” for his group of companies, even when the name was already in use. His critics point out that unlike brand names such as Virgin, Easy is a quality that most businesses would aspire to be and it is unfair to hijack the name from the English business lexicon. They also point out that, other than easyJet, Sir Stelios’ other enterprises lack the substance trumpted about in the press. Karl Kahn, the rightful owner of an Easypizza brand established 7 years before Sir Stelios launched his pizza shop selling cooked from frozen pizzas commented ‘We knew we were in the right, we’d had the name for longer and had no intention to copy them or anything about them’ after easyPizza were forced to drop their aggressive case which caused the small business owner to go into debt to defend himself. He described the year spent defending the bullying approach by easyGroup as ‘an absolute nightmare’.

More about this saga in an article on OUT-LAW.com.

This prompts me to investigate who owns the easylaw domains:

easylaw.co.uk
Congratulations Cobleys LLP

easylaw.com(not found)
Commiserations to Wild West Domains, Inc.

Domain Name: EASYLAW.COM
Registrar: WILD WEST DOMAINS, INC.
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
EPP Status: clientRenewProhibited

Not sure exactly what all that means but it looks bad.

easylaw.eu(not found)
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