Tech giant buys abcdefjhijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com because Alphabet

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October 8, 2015 4:10 PM

The company's site is located at the somewhat unconventional ABC.xyz web domain; probably due to the fact that the more logical Alphabet.com is owned by BMW

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In August, Google shocked the entire world when it announced a new parent company called Alphabet.

The company's site is located at the somewhat unconventional ABC.xyz web domain; probably due to the fact that the more logical Alphabet.com is owned by BMW (and it will likely stay that way), and abc.com is owned by TV network ABC.

Earlier this week, however, Domain Investing discovered that Google bought at least one other alphabet-like domain name: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com.

Yes, it's the entire alphabet, and it's not entirely surprising that Google will own such a domain.

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The whois records for abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com show that the domain was created as far back as 1999, and was owned by an unknown private entity until it was sold to Google.

Currently, the site points to nothing. It is highly likely that the company is just protecting its assets by registering domains that could be associated with Alphabet. “We realized we missed a few letters in abc.xyz, so we’re just being thorough,” a Google spokesman sad according to a report by Re/code.

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