Now that Google has changed its official name to Alphabet,it’s decided to buy the entire alphabet domain name — yes, that means it’s bought abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com. DomainInvesting, and which first flagged Google’s purchase,says that this specific domain was created in 1999 and had been privately owned before Google decided to buy it. Going to the domain lawful now shows that it’s a blank page, which means Google hasn’t officially done anything with it yet. DON’T MISS: PSA: You can watch 100+ movies for free on The Paramount Vault YouTube channel So why did Google/Alphabet buy such a ridiculous domain name? The company had already purchased the domain name abc.xyz and a spokesperson tells Re/code that “we realized we missed a few letters in abc.xyz, and so we’re
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