To Prepare for Wikileaks, Bank of America Bought Some Dirty Domain Names

[brentspeak]

http://motherboard.tv/2010/12/22/to-prepare-for-wikileaks-bank-of-america-bought-some-dirty-domain-names

To Prepare for Wikileaks, Bank of America Bought Some Dirty Domain Names

Posted by Don_Caldwell on Wednesday, Dec 22, 2010

Rumors that Wikileaks will soon be spilling Bank of America’s secrets have been running rampant. Last week Wikileaks http://twitter.com/#!/wikileaks/status/15982876201844736">tweeted:



Now, it seems that the bank has launched a laughable preemptive strike against the leak site by purchasing some hilarious domain names on behalf of CEO Brian Moynihan: BrianMoynihanBlows.com, BrianMoynihanSucks.com, BrianTMoynihanBlows.com, and BrianTMoynihanSucks.com. It also picked up the .net version of these names and some .orgs as well, reports http://domainnamewire.com/2010/12/20/bank-of-america-wants-you-to-know-its-executives-dont-suck/">Domain Name Wire.

This is sometimes known as “defensive registration”, like when http://domainnamewire.com/tag/defensive-domain-registration/">ConAgra bought up peanutbutterrecall.com during the peanut butter recall in 2007, and similar to http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/6/7/creep-files-bp-buys-search-terms-for-oil-spill--2">BP’s purchase of “oil spill” keywords this past summer.

But both of those other cases present limited domain name variations, and they didn’t involve Wikileaks. Combine the Assange factor with Internet lulz and low-level cultural spite towards Bank of America (to say nothing of Wall Street), and snapping up even a fraction of the possible insults toward your executives seems a Sisyphean task.

If the bank is serious about this, now might be a good time for domain opportunists to do some squatting. May we suggest SkankOfAmerica.com, BrianMoynihanIsAFurry.net, or BrianMoynihanSubscribesToThePostmodernCritqueOfScience.org?

[Toucano]

1. ShankofAmerica.com is GOLD!

K&R for that alone.

[tabatha]

2. That is so dumb

there are tons of variations like:

BastardBrianMoynihanSucks.com

FuckingBrianMoynihanSucks.com

ThiefBrianMoynihanSucks.com

CrookBrianMoynihanSucks.com

BrianMoynihanCrook.com

BrianMoynihanThief.com

BrianMoynihanBastard.com

etc

[FLyellowdog]

3. Note to Wikileaks....

That should be "advice", not "advise." Duh.