Google is now part of Alphabet , a parent company created to house all of the web giant’sdiverse efforts . But unfortunately for Google , they could n’t grease one’s palms Alphabet.com , which was already taken . So they ’ve done the next undecomposed thing . They purchase the integral alphabet : abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com .
funnily enough , Alphabet.com is owned by BMW who , as theFinancial Timesnotes , practice the domain for its fleet management section . BMW refused to sell the field to Alphabet , but there ’s no Son on how much money was offered .
So far , Alphabet has n’t even created a landing place page forabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.comand will utilise ABC.XYZ as its main Thomas Nelson Page .
“ We liked the name Alphabet because it means a collection of letters that represent speech , one of humanity ’s most crucial invention , and is the core of how we index with Google search ! ” Larry Page said back in August when the company name change was herald . “ We also wish that it means alpha - bet ( Alpha is investment return above bench mark ) , which we endeavour for ! ”
Alphabet / Google reportedly owns over 18,000 unlike domain name , which is n’t so strange when you consider their various businesses and potential business in the deeds . But abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com for sure stands out as one of the eldritch .
[ Financial Times ]
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