Bank of America has started snapping up “sucks” and “blows” domains for its executives in seeming preparation for the coming Wikileaks dirty-little-secrets-haemorrhage. In a stunning tribute to the financial acumen of BofA’s C-suite, they seem to have missed the fact that total combinations of $FIRSTNAME/INITIAL + $LASTNAME + [blows|sucks|crook|thief|fraudster].[com|net|org|ws|info|cc|ca|ch|whatever] multiplied by, say, $5/domain/year exceeds the total capital reserves of the bank.
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