Google bought the alphabet

Alphabet Holding, better known by the name of its subsidiary Google, has acquired the domain name abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com, which covers all 26 letters of the Latin alphabet, Business Insider reports.

According to the Whois, the domain was registered in the 1999 year, but was not assigned to any site. In possession of the Alphabet, he passed October 7. The amount of the transaction remained unknown.

Alphabet confirmed the purchase, explaining that they needed another domain in addition to the existing abc.xyz. “We realized we were missing a few letters in abc.xyz, so now we're just being more thorough,” a company spokesperson said.

Currently the URL abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com is unavailable.

On the creation of the holding Alphabet was announced in the official google blog. Alphabet was co-founder of Google Larry Page, and the second co-founder of search engine, Sergey Breen, received the presidency of the new company.

Later it became known that the name Alphabet chosen by Google for the new company affected the interests of BMW because it belongs to their subsidiary, which offers mobile solutions for businesses, including leasing and freight services. An Internet address is registered to the same company. www.alphabet.com.