Domains transferred to Thain’s latest employer.
There are a lot of people out there who don’t care for John Thain, current chairman and CEO of CIT. He was, after all, at the helm of Merrill Lynch during the banking meltdown…and apparently spent $1 million renovating a couple offices while on the government dole.
When his new employer CIT hired him, apparently a slew of protective domain names came along with him.
CIT was just unmasked this month as the owner of several variations of these gems:
F@ck-JohnThain.com
johnthain-blows.biz
johnthain-stinks.biz
johnthain-suck-ass.biz
johnthainsucksass.biz
ihate-johnthain.info
Boycott-johnthain.org
boycottjohnthain.biz
firejohnthain.com
dontbuyjohnthain.biz
johnthain-sux.net
johnthainsucks.info
f@ck-johnthain.com /.biz /.us
f@ckjohnthain.us
ihate-johnthain.biz
ihatejohnthain.biz
johnthainsux.biz
johnthain-sucks.biz
johnthain-sux.biz
johnthainblows.biz
johnthainsucks.biz
The domain names were registered back in 2008 by brand protection company MarkMonitor when Thain was still at Merrill Lynch (before selling to Bank of America).
Alas, these registrations are a futile attempt to keep the web quiet about Thain. A perfect example? Look at this “defensive” registration:
f@ckjohnthainjohnthain.biz
You see, f@ckjohnthainjohnthainjohnthain.biz is still available.
And you don’t even need a John Thain domain name to say bad things about him.
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