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Bank of America Buying Abusive Domain Names
Nite_Hawk writes "Bank of America has snapped up hundreds of abusive domain names for its senior executives and board members in what is being perceived as a defensive strategy against the future publication of damaging insider info from whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. According to Domain Name Wire, the US bank has been aggressively registering domain names including its board of directors' and senior executives' names followed by 'sucks' and 'blows.'"
Good luck grabbing every possible abusive word and all variations. "Sucks" is hardly the only word in existence that can be used to mean you smoke cock or gobble knob.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
Maybe they're just preparing themselves for some future "truth in lending" legislation.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Yesterday it was noted that they can do this but getting all of those available will exceed their available cash. Seems like a waste of time and energy.
>> According to Domain Name Wire, the US bank has been aggressively registering domain names including its board of Directors' and senior executives' names followed by "sucks" and "blows."'
I wonder if they also covered the Director and senior executive names - sucksandblows dot whatever... Or how about name-lovestheshaft dot whatever...
What a colossal waste of money, as an investor I am pissed-off at this idiotic attempt at censorship.
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The nearly endless variety of insulting phrases that begin with [name] [verb] [...] makes it impractical to register more than a tiny proportion of them, and no matter how extensive, it's easy to think of alternatives.
[name]stealsyourmoney.com comes to mind in the context of BoA long before it would occur to me to register [name]sucks.com, much less [name]sucksass.com, [name]sucksthebigone.com, and -- in the spirit of Bill Hicks -- [name]suckssatansscalycock.com.
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With a team of SEO geeks it won't even matter.
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Well, the first sentence of the two-sentence summary suggests that what makes this newsworthy is the fact it's being done defensively ahead of a major wikileak.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
There's astounding variety in dyslogistics; humanity's capacity to insult extends far beyond the simple "x sucks", "y blows", and often enters far more explicit territory. What makes them think that "sucks" and "blows" are the preferred verbal weapon of the domain-registering masses? If anything, this will only cause a rise in popularity of other insulting verbs.
Bob, the bad news is that your year-end bonus and stock options will be a wee bit smaller than last year.
The good news is that bobsucks.com won't be displaying a long list reasons for other companies not to hire you.
Well, the first sentence of the two-sentence summary suggests that what makes this newsworthy is the fact it's being done defensively ahead of a major wikileak.
Yes, but I wonder if they are buying domains like: Wewentbroke.com, bankgobyebye.com, Wetookyourmoney.com and my personal favorite: Wethoughtboombutwentbust.com
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I can imagine the board meeting where the idea was thrown out: Corp Douche 1: "They're going to be angry when they learn about the kind of things we've done. They're probably going to write letters and e-mails and setup 'BoASucks.com'." Corp Douche 2: "Well, we can ignore the mail. But websites? Oh my... the web! I hear there's a lot of people there and they say mean things about us! We can't let them do that!" Corp Douche 3: "We can cut them off at the knees! Let's buy up all the 'sucks' and 'blows' website names before they get to them! Public relations disaster averted!" *All of the Corp Douches clap*
BOA is a bunch of angels compared to the rest of the financial community, they should probably be investing in security rather than PR...
There is a steady stream of "$PERSON$ loses job/house, kills family, self, occasionally neighbors and/or a cop or two" stories in the US. Given the number of dodgy forclosures BOA is believed to be involved in, including some cases where they didn't even own the loan, or where there was no loan, I could easily imagine some of their more visible people becoming part of dissatisfied customers' blood drenched exits.
The really high level guys probably already take precautions; but a bank the size of BOA probably has a lot of fat around the middle...
This is like putting buckets over your flowers in advance of a hurricane...while living in New Orleans.
On the other hand it is really interesting they are scared enough about the Wikileaks release to take these fairly absurd measures. I wonder what public opinion of Wikileaks will be like if they expose some serious corruption in a major bank.
I just registered bankofamericasucksandblows.com ! Suck and blow on that!
How could a person or group express an opinion that would get the highest possible google rank when a person searches for BoA?
That is what this is all about, isn't it?
This seems to be pretty close to admitting that their senior execs have done things that would cause public outrage. Seems like a smarter strategy would have been just to shut up completely about it until seeing what these leaks actually contain. But, I suppose if you know beyond a doubt you will be proven guilty and held to account for something, you might as well prepare for it.
It could possibly, likely, involve Wikileaks
Fix'd. It might be a coincidence, but considering Wikileaks say they have dirt on Bank of America, and that said bank took actions against Wikileaks, I'd be surprised if this weren't related to the leaks.
Did they snatch up "Bank Of Assholes" or had they already trademarked that name?
The only thing I have with bank of america is credit card debt. I hope that disappears in the whole wikileakageddon bank of americassplosion.
don't bet on it, your debt might be one of their few assets when this is over. :p
BrianMoynihanIsADick.com is still available. They'd need to register thousands and thousands of names, not just a couple hundred.
looks like someone may be blowing more than whistles?
The domain is really secondary to content, because when people search, the search looks at pretty much everything other than the domain name. Silly (criminally rich) bankers.
Instead of trying to silence criticism, how about resolving problems people have with your institution?
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You'd think it would just be cheaper to sue - or threaten to sue (the ISP?) - anyone creating a defamatory web-site for defamation of character. Lawyer letters to the ISP of "offending" web-sites are generally effective, especially from a Big Bank.
For each $NAME in @EXECS
$NAMEsucks.com
$NAMEblows.com
(repeat for org, net, etc)
Ok, whew! I think we got them all!
$NAMEsucksass.com
$NAMEsucksshit.com
(repeat for anything else to suck: goats, whatever, just stay on the legal side and don't make a claim that could be claimed in court to be slander/libel)
$NAME_is_a_fuckwit.com
Honestly, I could keep going. People don't just type names in and add sucks and see what comes up, but if one of these execs is caught doing something illegal you can bet that appropriate domains will be reaching the top of google searches for the name with a quickness.
Indeed.
Or:
reallysucks.com
reallytrulysucks.com
reallytrulysucksbigtime.com
superreallytrulysucksbigtime.com
and so on....
Lots of buying to do there... I don't see how such defensive strategies can work... Am I missing something?
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Then there's:
SeniorExecutiveNameSucks.org
SeniorExecutiveNameSucks.net
SeniorExecutiveNameSucks.de
SeniorExecutiveNameSucks.me.uk (I like this one)
as well as
SeniorExecutiveNameIsABastard.com
IHateSeniorExecutiveName.com
Someone suggests that it is because their customers are finding out about the domain bankofamericasucks.com which has a forum and existing comments by customers and employees.
Do you changes clothes while making the "chee-chee-cha-cha-choh" transformation sound?
to be the first ones to be prepared to show to the rest of the world how much their executices suck.
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...there's a clever move., ihatebofa.com, or bofasux.net, or bofarobberbarons.org, or...
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
I just registered, "bankofamericahasbeeneffingyouinthearse.com". Soon the fun begins!
After all some people swear in French, German, etc. Maybe even Pig Latin!
You're making a classic mistake; I've heard about it being made in reverse (by someone who used to work in a bank getting a job in a company that wasn't a bank).
If you were a business, that debt would go on your list of liabilities. You'd like it to disappear of its own accord with no action from you.
You would also have a list of assets, and you certainly wouldn't let them disappear of their own accord.
The important thing is that if you are the bank, other people's debts appear in your list of assets. And other people's assets (ie. bank accounts in credit) appear in your list of debts.
Except you need to bump your derogatives up from 5 to approx 50,000. The price tag is now $300,000,000 per year.
And that 50,000 is a conservative figure. I'm pretty sure Doctorow gave five as an example, not a comprehensive list.
That's not to even mention compound derogatives...i.e., bankofamericaareabunchof[shit|fuck|ass|scum|dick|cunt][heads|bags|hats|holes|wads|buckets].[com|net|org|ws|info|cc|ca|ch|whatever].
Oh, and after you buy up all those, don't forget....bankruptofamerica.com.
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Sorry, wrong number.
I have personally experienced the taking-down of sites and content by ISPs which were legally bullied (cease and desist orders) by large companies to make the site/content go away. It's possible that for every one site/piece of content that I've seen taken down outside of due process, short-circuiting the burden of proof, there may be many other sites where the ISP referred the matter to a legal department and determined that it was just corporate bullying, and took no action.
In my personal experience, when a big company threatens to take action against a smaller company, unless it's a high-profile case that the EFF is willing to tackle, the smaller company seems to fold and remove the site/content. It simply costs too much to battle it out in court, so the big guy often wins.
Does anyone have any experience with a smaller company telling a larger company to go suck eggs and successfully fighting a suit or threat to sue? Maybe I'm just cynical....
I knew somebody who actually had their mortgage bank (a "small" shop) go out of business, but which sold all their loans off at a slight loss at the end before going bankrupt. The guy's file actually got lost in the office and the bankruptcy proceeded and completed without anyone finding it. The bills quit coming and nobody ever asked for money. He finally went to the courthouse and since the company had gone bankrupt without selling his loan, he owned the house free and clear.
I wouldn't hold my breath, but it's not without precedent.
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
If they start buying all of these domain names like BofAsucks etc... , Wouldn't those sites show up on Google?
It would be very funny if that were the case.
Imagine a prospective customer typing Bank Of America into Google and getting nothing but page after page of BofAsucks.com type websites.
If I saw that I would have to reconsider banking with them.
I thought you couldnt use naughty language in the ICANN name system?
Domain Name: FUCKBRIANMOYNIHAN.COM
Created on: 22-Dec-10
Expires on: 22-Dec-11
Last Updated on: 22-Dec-10
brianmoynihanisadickhead.com is still up for grabs though
Those who can, do. Those who cannot, sue.
I like where this is going
*gets popcorn*
Maybe this is news because it represents an entirely new way for banks to invest in futures? Think about how much Brian.MoynihanSucks.com might be worth in six months.
Although 4chan, 7chan, l33tsp34k and such have demonstrated that for any name that can be represented in the latin alphabet there are innumerable insulting misspellings that can get be coined.
Which does rather suggest that BOA is not very good at being clever. And if you think about it, you probably don't want to do business with a bank that thinks it is clever. (Especially if it is not as clever as it thinks it is.)
Will
ooh ooh morallybankruptofamerica.p2p
What I don't understand is why they think this is even necessary in the new world we just entered a month or so ago.
Why should they have to buy up domain names?
Why not just have their friends at Visa/Mastercard deny the ability of anyone to buy a domain name which could (potentially) be used to engage in "illegal activities"?
Or have their friends in Obama's office of imaginary rights enforcement seize the domains for trafficking in stolen property?
Or have the host (Amazon or whoever) drop the websites? Paypal refuse service? EveryDNS drop the domain records?
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Maybe they just think their board of Directors and senior executives "suck" and/or "blow"?
Did you ever think maybe that was the point?
I mean if 100 people on every site this news is spammed to grabs a name they havn't already grabbed, all that will be left for the idiots wanting to slander/hit their name will be either geekspeek making them look less authoritative and diminishing the power of it or so ridiculously long that you need to take a second commercial spot out just to advertise the website.
Either way, it has the potential to increase the costs of making a site to slam them, and it has the potential to lessen the credibility of what it said who knows it's said.
Whoever decided to do this doesn't understand the way language works. If an 'abusive' name doesn't exist or is unavailable people will just ascribe new meaning to an existing word or invent a new word that gets incorporated into a new name. Businesses often buy up domain names in the hope of a site being popular on its name alone. But the most popular websites often have made up names that didn't previously exist in everyday language. Bottom line -- it's the content that makes a site popular, not the name.
Ya think?
Is that why they registered "bankofamericasupportstyrants.com"
You are welcome on my lawn.
No. It suggests that it is being done as a defensive strategy against a future publication. Nowhere does it say "major". At least not in the first sentence. It doesn't even imply that there is a known leak. It could be "just in case". But, sure, add some drama if you'd like.
Discourage people from getting fired or going to work for a competitor.
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Bank of America isn't worried about Wikileaks telling people about the evil things they have done. ALL banks do that! They are worried that the leaks will show they have been behaving in a financially ethical manner and working for the benefit of their customers. If other banks find out about that, there will be hell to pay. People will make fun of them and lawyers won't want to keep their accounts there anymore. Could cause a run on the bank! They are buying up sites like BOAhelpswidowsandorphans.com.
Sorry, but gray text on gray background is making my eyes bleed.
It's nice of Bank of America to provide an index to the coming revelations ahead of time. It should make the first pieces of dirt hit the headlines faster, since you know what to look for.
Also, I wonder if you could get another major organization to reveal their shady actions in this way simply by spreading a rumour that Wikileaks is onto them?
Finally, this is interesting from purely psychological point of view: It proves that the leadership of BoA understands that their actions would be considered evil by common people; thus it seems unlikely that they are psychopaths, as common theories hold, but rather simply evil.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
They will survive on Google advertisement and the executive bonuses will come from selling "I'm rich" applications on iPhone, Android and newly Windows Phone 7 market apps.
someone gets the idea to add "goats" to the end of everything they just registered.
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If they had the tiniest bit of courage and honour left, they'd just come clean with whatever the nasty bits are. That would also leave them in control of the story. But no, they'll probably put their PR people into overdrive to spin it once it's out, and until than hang on to the hope that it might not happen.
I'll be waiting for it. I doubt our collective opinion of banks could get any worse than it is, but let's hope that one or two of them come crashing down - as they should've instead of being bailed out with our tax money.
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wtfbankofamerica.com ????
Actually it could be the PR department trying to cover *their* ass. The board of directors may or may not still be psychopaths.
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bankofamericalaundering.com
bankofamericadrugs.com
bankofamericadruglaundering.com
bankofamericaspies.com
bankofamericabribes.com
banksters.com
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It appears that Bank of America has absolute confidence in its senior management. On one hand, I can sort of see why they would do this for all their executives; if they singled out anyone it'd be kind of an admission of guilt. But this way, they're sending the message that their entire upper management level is corrupt.
There is no doubt that anyone wanting to create a boa-lostmyhouse.com address can be infinitely more creative than B of A can be in anticipating what that address might be.
And ultimately it doesn't matter at all. You can post the same information at www.abc123-etc.com as you can on an address called boa-sucks.com.
It's the information and dialogue that will be damaging (from the company's perspective), not the URL.
If that's not obvious to them, why are they being entrusted with the investment of hundreds of billions of dollars?
Back in 2000, the magazine 2600 tried to register VerizonSucks.com and found that it was already registered to Verizon, along with 100 variations. So they registered VerizonReallySucks.com and were doing fine until Verizon sued them.
[ Contact: Bank of America, Corporate and Financial customer category: expense of over 2 billion per year ]
Yes, every year I expend billions of dollars worth of great ideas just simply talking to people and being one of the greatest geniuses who has ever lived. You wouldn't have a clue. I will write "on your level".
From what I understand, Bank of America is spending money to do things like buy up domain names such as "ThePresidentofBankofAmericaHasHisPenisOnUpsideDown.com" or "AllTheMunchkinsWhoWorkForBankOfAmericaAreUnderpaidAndDon'tComprehendIt.com" and so on.
Maybe Bank of America are spending what is, to them, relatively pennies in terms of monies, kind of like throwing a few pennies on the grown relatively, in expressing in a subtle fashion -- nothing that would mark their reputation or standing, mind you -- exactly how they feel about the paranoia and overreaction assembled around Assange and Wikileaks. Perhaps?
Really, though, I would be interested to know what Bank of America's psychologist would say if Bank of America were lying on the couch and said "I want to claim up all the names in the world that might make fun of my name. Might make FUN of my name. So nobody CAN."
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They're going to have to fight snookie for skankofamerica.example.com
Bought it using a B of A credit card. Hey Bank of America -- ITS FOR SALE!!
Yes, you are missing the point that they don't use their brain, they use their money.
Yeah but an easier URL makes it easier. goatse.cx versus ispreadmybunghole.info
There could be a lot of that going on soon. Foreclosure requires that the chain of title be unbroken. That is to say that there is a document, signed and notarized, for every time that the title changed hands. However county governments charge a fee for every time you transfer the title. The banks got around this by founding a "company" (MERS) which would buy the title, and hold on to it, and transfer the ownership of the title internally to whoever the latest owner of the loan was. (I put company in quotes because it is really just a front with only 50 employees yet it allows people to name themselves vice-presidents, and sign in its name for like $25.) However doing this did not really satisfy the actual law, and so every loan registered with MERS is potentially invalid. The loans still exist, and the borrower may still have to pay them back, but they are now unsecured, not attached to the home.
> bankofamericaspies.com
How *are* Bank of America's pies, anyway?
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This isn't a defensive measure against anything. Everyone at Bank Off, America is just getting a special Christmas present this year.
It must have really sucked to be one of those PR folks tasked with putting together a list of "my CEO blows" type of domains right before Christmas
when logic fails, bullshit prevails
That's possible, but it's certainly NOT "free and clear".
Here's how you do it, in a VERY simplified form.
1. Open an escrow account and place your monthly mortgage payment, plus interest, into that account.
2. File a small claims suit with your local county, against the mortgage company holding your mortgage. Make it for the monthly amount of the mortgage, plus interest. You are filing suit for them to provide a signed and notarized copy of the deed, as well as any copies of the bill of sale for ALL of the transactions they made with the property.
3. Pay a process server to serve the holder the papers, or at least try.
4. Hire a court recorder. Chances are good that the court will try to simply dump you once it becomes apparent what you're doing. The court reporter will keep them honest.
5. Keep EXCELLENT records of every penny spent, as well as all transactions and communications with the process server and the court.
6. Show up in court on the appointed day.
Now here's where it gets tricky.
The mortgage holder, if they can even be found, probably won't bother to send a lawyer for such a small sum. They'll simply ignore it, and you win by default. If they DO show up, they have to produce the paperwork. Again, chances are good they can't. If they produce a robo-signed copy, they'll be charged with forgery. The odds are stacked in your favor.
If the unlikely event happens that they can prove that the debt is valid, simply resume paying the mortgage and carry on as normal. That's what the escrow account is for.
If nobody shows up, take the money you won in the small claims suit and place THAT into the escrow account too. This shows good faith on your part.
7. File a new small-claims suit again for the next month. Follow steps 1-7, for six months or more. Six months is probably best.
8. On the sixth court appearance, ask the court to nullify the debt. You can...
a. Show you fully intend to pay all debts if the paperwork is provided. (The escrow account again)
b. Show you can cover all interest, penalties and fees if the paperwork is provided and you have to resume paying.
c. Show that you can cover all costs of the court.
d. Show that you paid the process server.
e. Show you followed due process and due diligence.
And the mortgage holder has shown nothing but negligence and dereliction of their obligations.
The court will hand you the property with a clean deed.
BUT WAIT!!!!!
Remember that escrow account? DO NOT SPEND IT!!!
You're going to need that money to pay CAPITAL GAINS TAXES, because a new house will constitute a huge jump in your income, and that mortgage payment write-off is going bye-bye too.
You can tack this on as Step 8f: You can show ability to pay all federal, state and local taxes once the house is yours.
Bonus: If the mortgage holder sends your debt to collections while the court cases are pending, they're in violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and can be slapped with a heavy fine on top of losing the mortgage.
You can spend that.
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Lots of buying to do there... I don't see how such defensive strategies can work... Am I missing something?
One of the people in their war room is on the sales team at MarkMonitor?
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So what? Guy cheats on wife, it's hardly interesting or in any way relevant. It might be slightly ironic if Assange was being accused of infidelity, but he isn't.
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google solves this handily.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
This is so ridiculous it's funny. :)
I listen to both RIAA and non-RIAA stuff if I like the music, tangential business/politics nonwithstanding.
Psychopaths have the ability to emulate morals, just like we emulate manners. I see no reason to exclude them from their current label. An evil pretending to be good is worse than a purely outward evil.
Is that why they registered "bankofamericasupportstyrants.com"
They didn't - I just checked, it's not registered at all.
I wonder how much management will have to bonus themselves for this cleverness?
Then you can repeat with .net, .org, .tv etc,etc.
Domain names cost about 10$ a pop. A single spindoctoring TV commercial costs half a billion if you want anyone to see it. They can easily afford to buy out every domain that could possibly be created, and it wouldn't touch what they will have to spend if some seriously nasty info gets out. My guess is that they figure preventing you from getting a relevant domain name will stop people from discussing them. I'd say that is where the stupidity comes in; nobody makes websites anymore.
Great Intellect...
get a load of that democracy, freedom of speech .... you are as free as the money you have - and those with more money than you, can even go 'privately' buying means with which you can effectively practice your freedom of speech ... yeah yeah, i know, they are 'just' buying domain names in this instance. 'just'. but they are also in bed (all megacorps actually) with each other in payment, backbone providing, news, media, and so on. all combined, it makes a hugely effective mechanism for control of free speech.
greatest trick : make everyone free to speak, but tie everything to money. then you have effectively controlled free speech, and also maintained an illusion of freedom that fools would believe.
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Psychopaths have the ability to emulate morals, just like we emulate manners.
And they are very very good at it. I saw one nearly destroy a close family once. Their ability to lie and emulate morals, emotions, etcetera is absolutely staggering.
The new right fascists are bilingual. They speak English and Bullshit.
As rotten as everything else about the company.
Well, didn't the women change their story only after finding out Assange slept with both of them around the same time? It may not be infidelity but it's close enough... Just like Swedish rape is not rape in the usual sense Swedish infidelity is not infidelity in the usual sense either. :-)
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Yes, you are missing the point that they don't use their brain, they use their money.
Or possibly our money. If only they'd taken our brains!
Yes, you are missing the point that they don't use their brain, they use their money.
What money?
You mean the federal reserve bankster's fractional reserve, let's keep printing currency with no solid backing of precious metals, until the economy drops out from under everyone that "earns" a paycheck or do you mean, the money deposited by the people who believe the banksters are there to "help" them into greater and greater debt?
The mind conceives, the body achieves, the spirit manifests.
Lots of buying to do there... I don't see how such defensive strategies can work... Am I missing something?
One of the people in their war room is on the sales team at MarkMonitor?
Yes you are missing something, the only "buying" that is needed comes in the buying of the really cheap whores in Washington D C.
The mind conceives, the body achieves, the spirit manifests.
Actually it could be the PR department trying to cover *their* ass. The board of directors may or may not still be psychopaths.
Yeah, the same way BP did. Look at the mess now.
The mind conceives, the body achieves, the spirit manifests.
Is that why they registered "bankofamericasupportstyrants.com"
They didn't - I just checked, it's not registered at all.
How about,
bankofamericabuyingpoliticianssincethecivilwar.com,
oh, excuse me,
bankofamericabuyingpoliticianssincethewarofagressionfromthenorth.com?
The mind conceives, the body achieves, the spirit manifests.
Maybe this is news because it represents an entirely new way for banks to invest in futures? Think about how much Brian.MoynihanSucks.com might be worth in six months.
Although 4chan, 7chan, l33tsp34k and such have demonstrated that for any name that can be represented in the latin alphabet there are innumerable insulting misspellings that can get be coined.
Which does rather suggest that BOA is not very good at being clever. And if you think about it, you probably don't want to do business with a bank that thinks it is clever. (Especially if it is not as clever as it thinks it is.)
how is 4chan insulting
http://www.awfullybigmoustache.com
Yes, you are missing the point that they don't use their brain, they use their money.
Or possibly our money. If only they'd taken our brains!
This could be their next plan. I must check whether they have brought bankersarezombies.com.
There are laws in the UK for this too.
:))
The CCA is your friend. Most companies cannot provide the original paperwork. Debt collection agencies have never provided me with paperwork when requested. Most give up and sell the debt when you start sending CCA related letters (these can be downloaded from the internet *duh*
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Lots of buying to do there... I don't see how such defensive strategies can work... Am I missing something?
One of the people in their war room is on the sales team at MarkMonitor?
Yes you are missing something, the only "buying" that is needed comes in the buying of the really cheap whores in Washington D C.
Leave my mom out of this you insensitive clod.
Domain names cost about 10$ a pop. A single spindoctoring TV commercial costs half a billion if you want anyone to see it. They can easily afford to buy out every domain that could possibly be created, and it wouldn't touch what they will have to spend if some seriously nasty info gets out.
No. Allowing for only alpha-numeric characters there are 37^63 -1 possible domain names (alpha-numbers and no character for 1 to 63 characters) this gives 626,193,587,911,053,268,732,827,767,099,982,579,610,904,461,501,866,669,014,246,836,899,225,819,910,774,694,322,888,478,540,551,852 possibilities. And this is just in the ".com" domain and does not allow for subdomains and other characters
Because they know the right people, of course. What more could you want from top executives in charge of and responsible for billions upon billions of other people's money ?
What a depressingly stupid machine.
They can have all the *sucks urls. I want to see *ate my balls come back. I think it would be much more fitting too since banks want to take everything of value from you.
Cool, we could assign every atom in the observable universe a .com domain name. Too bad the DNS server would collapse in a black hole and eat our galaxy.
No, I don't believe that BoA has a support sty to rant in, at or with, whatever a support sty may be.
What a great way to spend bailout money.
As the Americans like to say, "Swoosh". No, wait, that's what's on their shoes...
Oh well, Merry Christmas.
You are welcome on my lawn.
BoA_Destructor
And a Happy Hanukkah and Rowdy Ramadan to Your Holiness, and may all the non-believers burn in Hell in His eternal mercy, Amen.
Finally, this is interesting from purely psychological point of view: It proves that the leadership of BoA understands that their actions would be considered evil by common people; thus it seems unlikely that they are psychopaths, as common theories hold, but rather simply evil.
Actually, they would be sociopaths.
Psychopaths kill for no reason, Sociopaths kill for money...
-=Geoskd
I wish I had a good sig, but all the good ones are copyrighted
Seems reasonable, if incredibly unlikely. If the apropriate papers arent filed to transfer the lein to the new bank owner corporation then the debt dies with the old bank because they ceased to exist and cannot collect (a lender cannot refuse to accept payments made or the loan is immediately forgiven and if nobody is there to take the check then they obviously aren't accepting any payments he would send). The smaller business they were talking about wouldn't have been an actual bank and probably sold off all its loans individually or in packages rather than selling off the company itself to a single buyer. If they forgot to transfer it before the company died then he would be free and clear on that debt.
There are a lot fewer names than that which people are likely to want to use when starting a smear website. I'm not saying their plan would work (it won't), just what their reasoning likely is. They haven't accounted for the fact that most discussion of them is going to happen on sites like slashdot or (argh) twitter, but megacorps are notorious for poor risk management. If whoever is in charge of spindoctoring can make half a million dollars in domain name purchases look like a good idea, you bet they are going to do it- usefulness be damned.
Great Intellect...
Bonus: Do this with a very expensive house, then once you have the deed, sell it and move into a small, inexpensive house elsewhere. Use the rest of the money to either invest, or buy other properties to rent out, or simply tuck it away in long-term bonds as FU money.