I still giggle when I think about Jeff Bezos reacting to the name Alphabet. The new holding company was introduced with a domain name called abc.xyz back in August.
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The company’s site is located at the somewhat unconventional ABC.xyz web domain; the perhaps more logical Alphabet.com is owned by BMW (and it will likely stay that way), and abc.com is owned by TV network ABC. And as for abc.com, we don’t see the American Broadcasting Company giving that one up anytime soon. This means that Google Search, Youtube and Android will be a subsidiary of Alphabet as well as smaller units such as Google X and Nest.
Google officially became Alphabet last week when it created the new parent company Alphabet to enable it’s different business to go solo and be more efficient.
Google’s new 26-letter URL was spotted in Whois records by DomainInvesting.com.
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Currently, navigating to the URL leads one to an inactive website. “I didn’t notice any that were registered to Google, although I admittedly didn’t spend much time looking”, Elliot Silver added. Experts are of the opinion that Alphabet possibly made abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com’s purchase to stop the likes of Facebook and Apple from acquiring the domain – a defensive move so others could not snap up the domain name.
