Control of nasty John Thain domain names — CIT gets
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, following 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 fresh 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 a number of variations of these gems:
[email protected]
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
[email protected] /.biz /.us
[email protected]
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 firm MarkMonitor when Thain was still at Merrill Lynch (ahead of selling to Bank of America).
Alas, these registrations are a futile attempt to keep the web quiet regarding Thain. A perfect example? Look at this “defensive” registration:
You see, [email protected] is still available.
And you don’t even need a John Thain domain name to say bad things regarding him.
