{"id":1180,"date":"2015-10-08T16:48:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T23:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2025-06-26T20:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:53:14","slug":"google-buys-domain-name-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/1180\/google-buys-domain-name-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Google buys domain name Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alphabet\u2019s New Structure and Domain Strategy<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Google has officially become a subsidiary of Alphabet<\/a>, its new holding company.  After U.S. markets closed last Friday, Alphabet replaced Google as the publicly traded company, consisting of Google search, Adsense, Google Maps, YouTube, and other new ventures such as driverless cars.  Alphabet chose a new tld for their website, abx.xyz, but they are still making similar domain name purchases.  They just recently purchased the “full alphabet”, domain name that is,  Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com.  Yes, each type we type this, we usually copy\/paste it.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Will They Do With the Long Domain Name?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It’s not clear what\u00a0Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com<\/a> is intended to be used for – it is still not loading in the browser, or even being redirected to the official Alphabet website, abc.xyz<\/a>. \u00a0A spokesman for the company joked with media,\u00a0“We realized we missed a few letters in abc.xyz, so we’re just being thorough”. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google\u2019s History of Domain Name Purchases<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As\u00a0NBC News<\/a>\u00a0reports, Whois shows that\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Google owns 18,095 other domains. They have picked up misspelled domain name variations, Googl.com and Gogle.com,\u00a0to redirect misspellers\u00a0to the search engine. \u00a0Google also owns the domain GoogleSucks.com . \u00a0That domain does not load either, in case you are wondering. \u00a0Similary, Taylor Swift and Microsoft went on the defense earlier this year in March, purchasing .porn and .adult names to protect their brand<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Alphabet.com Still Not for Sale<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The domain\u00a0Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>was originally created in 1999 and was updated on Wednesday when Google took control of it, according to the Whois domain database\u00a0. \u00a0It is not known how much Google paid for the domain name, but you can guess it’s more than the $8 regular fee they paid for abc.xyz. \u00a0The owner of alphabet.com, BMW, does not want to sell it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related: What is Domain Squatting and how to protect your domain name?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Domain Name Taken? Here\u2019s What to Do<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Many Syllables and Words Make a Domain Name Easy to Remember<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why are all of the best domain names taken when there aren\u2019t websites using them?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Got a techy\/website question?<\/strong> Whether it\u2019s about UltimateWB or another website builder, web hosting, or other aspects of websites, just send in your question in the\u00a0\u201cAsk David!\u201d form<\/a>. We will email you when the answer is posted on the UltimateWB \u201cAsk David!\u201d section.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alphabet\u2019s New Structure and Domain Strategy Google has officially become a subsidiary of Alphabet, its new holding company.  After U.S. markets closed last Friday, Alphabet replaced Google as the publicly traded company, consisting of Google search, Adsense, Google Maps, YouTube, and other … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[345,621],"tags":[800,4831,799,4832,804,2922,319,607,4833,4835,4834,82,831,4830,4142,798],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domain-names","category-technology-in-the-news","tag-abc-xyz","tag-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-com","tag-alphabet","tag-alphabet-com","tag-bmw","tag-brand-protection","tag-choose-domain-name","tag-domain-names-2","tag-domain-purchase","tag-domain-registrations","tag-domain-strategy","tag-google","tag-google-domains","tag-misspelled-domains","tag-tech-news","tag-tld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6837,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/6837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}