Blackstone Group plays defense, registers critical domain names

According to FierceFinance’s Jim Kim: “With criticism of the private equity business model stepping up in the political arena--thank you, Mitt Romney--private equity firms would be wise to play some strong defense.

The Blackstone Group appears to be doing just that. According to Domain Name Wire (hat tip to DealBook for the tip), the private equity giant has registered some names before the critics could get them. The list includes:

blackstonesucks.com
blackstonegroupsucks.com
theblackstonegroupsucks.com
schwarzmansucks.com
stephenschwarzmansucks.com
stevenschwarzmansucks.com
steveschwarzmansucks.com

The firm may be taking cues from other financial services giants that found themselves on the hot seat. Not too long ago, Bank of America bought up a whole bunch of domain names for the same reason, including BrianMoynihanSucks.com and brianMoynihanBlows.com. Hopefully, Blackstone Group did not miss the “blows” domain names.

With that in mind, if a critic really wants to set up an anti-Blackstone Group web site, this action will not prove to be much of a deterrent. After all, one of the best known anti-Goldman Sachs web sites is www.goldmansachs666.com. One could always go with “reallysucks” or “reallyblows” in the URL.

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