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HOLLYWOOD
12-22-2010, 05:11 PM
Eliminate any kind of opposition or bad PR, eh?

http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2010/12/22/439-ways-to-hate-bank-of-america/tab/comments/

439 Ways to Hate Bank of America
Angry at Bank of America? Well, now there are fewer ways to express that rage.

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Bloomberg: NewsHaters of Bank of America and CEO Brian Moynihan now have 439 fewer ways to express their Grinch-ness towards the bank.


In recent days, at least 439 Internet domain names that are critical of the bank’s top officials were taken off the market. The registrations of the domain names, which include imaginative swipes at the bank’s CEO, such as BrianMoynihanBlows.com and BrianTMoynihanSucks.net, effectively stop BofA-haters from slamming the bank’s top executives and directors –- or at least blocks any slams using a couple of very specific pejoratives.

Companies have made it a practice to scoop up negative Web addresses (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122057760688302147.html) that might be used by disgruntled customers, as The Wall Street Journal has reported. Such defensive Web strategies are particularly important at a time when a corporate reputation can be sullied by a few clicks of the mouse. For example, a satiric Twitter account set up after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill became a hub for criticism about BP.

But the buying of BofA names is a different approach. Where most efforts have been focused on the corporate brands, the focus here is BofA’s directors and corporate officers.
The BofA registrations followed this formula: Pull up the public roster of the bank’s senior officers (http://mediaroom.bankofamerica.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=234503&p=irol-govmanage) and directors (http://investor.bankofamerica.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=71595&p=irol-govboard), and buy up web addresses with the officials’ names followed by the words “blows” or “sucks,” according to the list of the recently registered BofA Web addresses collected by research service Domain Tools. For example, among the domain names bought in recent days are at least 12 variations on Bank of America Chairman Charles O. Holliday Jr.

Domain Name Wire’s Andrew Allemann (http://domainnamewire.com/2010/12/20/bank-of-america-wants-you-to-know-its-executives-dont-suck/) first wrote about the BofA domain registrations.
The Web addresses weren’t registered in Bank of America’s name, but by a company called MarkMonitor, according to domain research service WhoIs. MarkMonitor bills itself as a strategist for protecting corporate brands, and it is among the handful of firms that buy Internet addresses on behalf of big companies, according to domain-registration experts. MarkMonitor previously has registered domain names for Facebook (http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-currently-using-fb-com-internally-2010-11) and Apple (http://www.macrumors.com/2009/12/24/apple-purchased-islate-com-in-2007-apples-new-tablet-called-islate/), among other big companies.

Bank of America didn’t respond to requests for comment. MarkMonitor could not be reached immediately.
Josh Bourne of FairWinds Partners (http://www.fairwindspartners.com/), which advises companies on their digital brands, said companies can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to $1 million a year on “defensive” registrations to help keep a lid on websites that may trash the company, or misdirect people to fraudulent Internet sites. For example, domain names xeroxstinks.com and JCrewsucks.com (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704584804575645232732453358.html) are owned by their corporate namesakes, The Wall Street Journal has reported.

Companies “are definitely not trying to close every doorway, which is impossible,” Bourne said. “But you can close some of the most important doors” to criminal behavior or just plain corporate nastiness, said Bourne about the defensive registration of Web addresses.
But even after a blanket effort to buy up BofA-related Web addresses, there is plenty of room for critical Web sites.


BankofAmericaSucks.com already exists as a forum for people unhappy with the bank. The web name ihatebankofamerica.com is taken, according to WhoIs, but is so far unused. BrianMoynihanblows.com may have been scooped up last week, but BrianMoynihanREALLYBlows.com is still available. So too is BofAisEvil.com, which is available for just $9.95 a year.

See WSJ link for the listing of 439 URLs purchased by BofA: http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2010/12/22/439-ways-to-hate-bank-of-america/?mod=e2tw

smartguy911
12-22-2010, 05:15 PM
Here i'll give some that are available -

officialboa.com
aboutboa.com
newboa.com
boasuck.com

torchbearer
12-22-2010, 05:30 PM
boablowsdonkeydick.com

runningdiz
12-22-2010, 05:32 PM
Here i'll give some that are available -

officialboa.com
aboutboa.com
newboa.com
boasuck.com

The company abbreviation is bofa not boa

QueenB4Liberty
12-22-2010, 06:52 PM
The company abbreviation is bofa not boa

I've never seen anyone write bofa.

HOLLYWOOD
12-22-2010, 07:44 PM
Yeah, it's BofA... if the database was in order upon a search, you'd receive 100's of hits here.

The foreclosure collapse and the phony FIAT "adjustments" on valuation of debt will take BofA down... or Will Take BofA to the Printing Presses of the Potomac to bail them out again.

Banking Fraud is legal in America... just as long as the entire bank commits the fraud on the country.

Vessol
12-22-2010, 08:26 PM
Are their ego's really that fragile?

sevin
12-22-2010, 09:16 PM
hahaha, they can buy all the domains they want, they're still going to look like a-holes.

Kludge
12-22-2010, 09:20 PM
BofA = BAC (Bank of America Corporation)

runningdiz
12-23-2010, 06:29 AM
I've never seen anyone write bofa.

The article in the first post writes it as BofA every single time. I don't recall seeing it as boa but maybe that's because I am in charlotte and everyone just refers to it as B of A (BofA)

osan
12-23-2010, 08:21 AM
How about blogs? BankOfAmericaIsEvil.blogspot.com? ;)

osan
12-23-2010, 08:27 AM
hahaha, they can buy all the domains they want, they're still going to look like a-holes.

They made assholes of themselves long ago.

Now they're just gliding the lily.

osan
12-23-2010, 08:29 AM
BringDownBofA.com
DestroyBofA.com
RuinBofA.com
BankruptBofA.com

Be POSITIVE! :)

Carole
12-23-2010, 10:11 AM
Using 'boa' might throw them off for a while. LOL

heavenlyboy34
12-23-2010, 10:31 AM
lolz @ funny domains. :) I'm glad I got out of BOA before the crash.