news Google uses a .XYZ for their new parent company Alphabet - the Internet melts

[DomainVP]

Multiple news outlets are reporting that "Google" has decided to change their parent company name to "Alphabet" and has launched it on the domain ABC.XYZ.

I have seen many companies that operate multiple businesses under one umbrella and also use terrible domains without ever intending to own the exact match .COM - but for Google, this move is surprising.

It’s a win for Daniel Negari and selling one of the few domains that the .XYZ registry is good for: the alphabet. The other being abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw.xyz

I think Google summed it up by saying, "[we make] smaller bets in areas that might seem very speculative or even strange when compared to our current businesses.”

As this story unravels, I’m sure Mr. Negari will have a larger role to play within Alphabet, possibly even heading their .google extension when Google decides that we should all be using a .google instead of .COM.

Speculation for a speculative move.


From the announcement G is for Google:

What is Alphabet? Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, of course, is Google . . . companies that are pretty far afield of our main Internet products [will be] contained in Alphabet instead.

Alphabet Inc. will replace Google Inc. as the publicly-traded entity and all shares of Google will automatically convert into the same number of shares of Alphabet, with all of the same rights. Google will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet. Our two classes of shares will continue to trade on Nasdaq as GOOGL and GOOG.

Don’t worry, we’re still getting used to the name too!

Your thoughts?

 

[NPer]

Many here are forgetting that Google's main aim is to please domainers who type in "term" + 'new gtld" into the search bar.

I knew this.

 

[rafass]

Certainly Google just want to say:
Hey! the .com is nothing now. Fu** the speculators!
Lets use the new tld's! Yeah!
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[mad409]

ABC.mx - $17,700.00 reported sale, wonder who?

 

[redesignunit]

due to abc.xyz domain register buy google some other service also get traffic which is similar domain with .xyz

 

[carob]

So are they changing their main domain to google.xyz?

Interesting article about how the google board stopped Larry Page spending a fortune on new TLDs even though it applied for over 100 of them
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/13/larry_google_domain_names/

The suits stepped in and Google's – and Larry's – big plan was boiled down to the company's brand names and those it has already applied for but was the only applicant.

Of the 101 names it applied for, Google ended up fighting for just four: .map, .app, .search, and .phd. It let 40 names go, including .cloud, .tech, .movie, .talk and many more. It even sold off its rights in the uncontested top-level domain .car.

Free from the shackles of the Google corporate machine, Larry's FU was to put the new company Alphabet on the domain name abc.xyz – something that exploded awareness of the new names in the general public.

 

[mad409]

So are they changing their main domain to google.xyz?

Interesting article about how the google board stopped Larry Page spending a fortune on new TLDs even though it applied for over 100 of them
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/13/larry_google_domain_names/

It will remain Google.com but you're correct Larry was blocked with his interest in new gTLDS.

 

[disaac81]

Sorry people but are some of you really missing what has happened?

abc.xyz is a parent holding page that will not be used for public relations, only for investor queries.

Most of the companies within abc, including google all use dot com.

Too many people jumping up like this means anything for gtlds... well it does, yes it helps them all a little of course, but it does NO damage to dot com whatever.

You cannot compare any other gtld to dot com, dot com is in a place of its own, that is not to say that some gtlds will do well, I wish them luck.

 

[rafass]

It appears to cause pain when someone says that is ending the reign of the .com's xd

 

[London555]

We just bought FloodInsurance.xyz Go and try to buy that in any other extension and bring your check book! lol

 

[Ms Domainer]

We just bought FloodInsurance.xyz Go and try to buy that in any other extension and bring your check book! lol

A quick search on Go Daddy says otherwise; there are tons of Flood Insurance domains in the new G's: .menu, .company, .directory, .house, .solutions, among others.

Also, you can snatch FloodInsurance.im

 

[London555]

A quick search on Go Daddy says otherwise; there are tons of Flood Insurance domains in the new G's: .menu, .company, .directory, .house, .solutions, among others.

Also, you can snatch FloodInsurance.im

No interest in those extensions whatsoever I should have been more clear I mean .com .net .org etc and IF .xyz hits-lol -if Google buys the .xyz Reg. this becomes a serious name. I doubt any major company is going to want FloodInsurance.menu. We also own Insurance.moe and I like this new .xyz better.

 

[Ms Domainer]

No interest in those extensions whatsoever I should have been more clear I mean .com .net .org etc and IF .xyz hits-lol -if Google buys the .xyz Reg. this becomes a serious name. I doubt any major company is going to want FloodInsurance.menu. We also own Insurance.moe and I like this new .xyz better.

Good luck, then.

 

[pdevananth]

If you are saying that .com is the most popular domain today, I don't think anyone would give you an argument but that's not the point of this discussion.

.Com investors will compare 30 yrs old extension with 3 days old extension and say .com is king...

King might be much familiar than princes but king will die one day and prince will become king...

Only fools can think something is permanent...

.xyz also can get traffic if SEO done properly...it can be remembered in the same way .com was....then what's the problem for endusers using .xyz? Is it just bcos u guys invested so much in .com?

 

[mad409]

.Com investors will compare 30 yrs old extension with 3 days old extension and say .com is king...

King might be much familiar than princes but king will die one day and prince will become king...

Only fools can think something is permanent...

.xyz also can get traffic if SEO done properly...it can be remembered in the same way .com was....then what's the problem for endusers using .xyz? Is it just bcos u guys invested so much in .com?

Defending their interests and rejecting change pretty much sums it up!

Unfortunately some want to be ugly doing so..

 

[doubleU]

With so many of today's top businesses/brands established on .com, it would take some happenings to cause a seismic shift to other TLDs anytime soon.

Ask yourself if all the TLDs were launched on the same day, which do you think would become the most popular ?

Would .com rise to the top ?

 

[JB Lions]

Start off with more realistic goals. .biz or .us at 2.1 million and 1.7 million regs and dropping. That's a possibility. Or how about 2% of a .com, that would be about 2.4 million regs. .co couldn't even do that and they had the spotlight to themselves, they didn't come out with a bunch of other new ones or .web on the horizon. They also had bigger sales. I would love to see a math plan from one of the believers if your goal is beating .com. How exactly? If .xyz did what they did in the first year, every year, it would take about 124 years. And that's if not another .com was ever registered. I think .com netted something like 3.3 million last year.

I think Carl Sagan said it best

 

[mad409]

Even better! -

Follow your passion.

Stay true to yourself.

Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods lost and you see a path.

By all means you should follow that!

 

[Charles Sweeney]

Start off with more realistic goals. .biz or .us at 2.1 million and 1.7 million regs and dropping. That's a possibility. Or how about 2% of a .com, that would be about 2.4 million regs. .co couldn't even do that and they had the spotlight to themselves, they didn't come out with a bunch of other new ones or .web on the horizon. They also had bigger sales. I would love to see a math plan from one of the believers if your goal is beating .com

No-one is saying a single new domain will beat .com, but add up ALL the new domain regisrations and it will be a different story.

 

[Charles Sweeney]

Ask yourself if all the TLDs were launched on the same day, which do you think would become the most popular ?

Would .com rise to the top ?

That's a very good question. When domains first came out there was only .com, .net and .org . .com was for companies/commercial, .net was for networks/ISPs and .org was for organisations, so there was only ONE choice for commercial ventures. Hardly surprising it became popular.

Today there are hundreds of generic domains. If you were to put them all side-by-side on day one, there's no way .com would be as popular as it is.

 

[carob]

Ask yourself if all the TLDs were launched on the same day, which do you think would become the most popular ?

Country codes for each country would be tops - many businesses already want to show what country they are in and register .de or .co.uk and skip .com

It isn't domainers who decide this, it is end user businesses, and as in the physical world many do not want an address that raises doubts or does not look professional. Will people in businesses stop wearing business clothes?

 

[Traveler]

nvm

 

[JB Lions]

No-one is saying a single new domain will beat .com, but add up ALL the new domain regisrations and it will be a different story.

You haven't been keeping up with the news:

He said:
"Over the next 30 years, .xyz will reign supreme as not only the #1 new domain extension, but eventually as the NUMBER 1 domain in the world. Period."

I understand this is marketing. Many here actually believe this. For those, I would love to see the mathematical path to that happening.

These aren't some Transformers that get together and form 1 big new gtld, they are all unique. They compete with each other as well.

 

[Charles Sweeney]

"Over the next 30 years, .xyz will reign supreme as not only the #1 new domain extension, but eventually as the NUMBER 1 domain in the world. Period.

I certainly don't agree with that

 

[disaac81]

Some of this stuff is laughable.

Comparing domains to real estate may not be a best way, but this is all I say about this subject...

London has some of the most expensive properties in the world.

A new development is built elsewhere and prices there go up too.

Still.. prices in London continue to rise, because it's the place to be for many business people.

My point is, good luck to all the new gtlds, but to be so naive to think that gtlds will damage dot com is a joke. As I said a long time ago, if anything, they all help dot com. Any sensible person knows that if a name is available is dot com then that is the number one choice, period.

Enough on this subject now as it is getting boring.

Goodnight, good luck to all.

 

[doubleU]

Any sensible person knows that if a name is available is dot com then that is the number one choice, period.

I disagree with this, I think abc.xyz is more suitable than abc.com to showcase googles Alphabet parent company.

This is not the only example and I am not the only person who thinks this way, nor will I be the last.

It is shortsighted and narrow minded to disregard the millions of new options now available to businesses but I expect this from domainers who are stuck in the past.