Following reorganization of Google, the search engine giant, into a company called Alphabet, the company has bought the domain consisting of the entire alphabet, meaning it now owns abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com.
In August, Google announced abc.xyz domain, however, it seems that its quest to acquire alphabets was not just limited to six letters.
"We realized we missed a few letters in abc.xyz, so we're just being thorough," a Google spokesperson told Business Insider.
The 26-letter URL was created in 1999 according to domain-registration directory Whois. The link was not active at the time of publishing. It is unknown as to how much Google paid to purchase the domain.
“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”, said Mark Bergen of Re/code.
