"We realised we missed a few letters in abc.xyz, so we're just being thorough," Google told Business Insider.
The URL containing the entire English alphabet was discovered in Whois
records by DomainInvesting.com. The domain name is called
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com and was privately owned and created in
1999 before Google acquired it. According to freevaluator.com, Google's
lengthy domain name is worth an estimated $2,719 (£1,773, €2,407).
Alphabet owns Googl.com
and Gogle.com, which allows people to access the search engine even
when they misspell its name, and it also owns some other domains like
GoogleSucks.com for defensive purposes to prevent opposition groups from
using them, according to WSJ. Recode's Mark Bergen said: "The buy may
have been a defensive move to ensure that an Apple or a Facebook or
somebody else couldn't scoop up the site."
Still
plenty of alphabet-related internet domains are out there for purchase
but Elliot Silver from domainInvesting.com said: "It does not seem like
they are going to get Alphabet.com from BMW, and it seems pretty
unlikely ABC will sell them ABC.com either."
"I
did a random search of other domain names that have parts of the
alphabet, and most seem to be registered. I also checked the full
alphabet in other extensions, and it looks like many of those are
registered as well. Several of the main extensions (like .net, .org,
.info...etc.) were registered prior to the Google news about Alphabet. I
didn't notice any that were registered to Google, although I admittedly
didn't spend much time looking," Elliot Silver added.
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