In August, Google shocked the world by announcing a new parent company called Alphabet.
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. Earlier this week, however, Domain Investing found out that Google bought at least one other alphabet-y domain name: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com.
Yes, it's the full alphabet, and it's also that one domain that you wanted to buy as a joke 10 years ago but never did.
The whois records for abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com show the domain was created in 1999, and was owned by an unknown private entity until it was sold to Google.
Currently, the site points to nothing. So what does Google want with this domain? Most likely, the company is just protecting its assets by registering domains that could be associated with Alphabet. “We realized we missed a few letters in abc.xyz, so we’re just being thorough,” a Google spokesman told Re/code.