Google recently went through a major restructuring under newly formed parent company Alphabet. Since the forming, the company has gone through some controversy with its abc.xyz domain, but now, Google seems to have bought the entire alphabet as a domain.
Yes, folks, the entire alphabet. Google is now the owner of abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com. Why? Well, Google hasn’t given us a reason besides “missing” a few letters between abc and xyz in their URL. Here’s the official statement by way of a Google spokesman:
“We realized we missed a few letters in abc.xyz, so we’re just being thorough.”
In reality, Google probably purchased the domain to stop someone else from doing it in the future, as is commonplace. Right now the domain just points towards a dead page, but it wouldn’t be surprising if Google had the URL redirect to its actual abc.xyz domain.
Interestingly, the domain was already taken. In fact, someone bought it way back in 1999 and its been parked ever since. That said, this was a private sale that no doubt involved a lot more money than just your standard $12 or $13 for a new .com domain.
source: Domain Investing
via: Re/code
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