Google has bought the alphabet. 
 
 Not literally of course (if that's even possible), but it has acquired the domain name abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com, just a few days after Google officially became a subsidiary of Alphabet, its new holding company. 
 
 The domain was created in 1999 and was updated on Wednesday when Google took control of it, according to domain database Whois. It is unclear how much it was bought for. 
 
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 Google announced its restructuring in August in a bid to separate its core businesses such as search and Android from its "moonshots" like driverless cars. At the time, Google unveiled its website with a URL of abc.xyz. 
 
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 The purpose of the new domain is unclear given that the page did not load on Thursday morning. 
 
 "We realized we missed a few letters in abc.xyz, so we're just being thorough," a spokesman for the company told media. 
 
 Google owns 18,095 other domains, data on Whois shows. It's the owner of Googl.com and Gogle.com, so if people misspell Google, they will still be redirected to the search engine. 
 
 Sometimes, companies will make defensive acquisitions of user names in order to prevent them being embarrassed in the future. The U.S. tech giant also owns the domain GoogleSucks.com. 
 
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 The change to Alphabet has caused Google some headaches when it comes to domain names. It does not actually own alphabet.com because it's currently owned by German carmaker BMW. A report in the New York Times earlier this year suggested that BMW does not want to sell it. 
 
 The news was first reported by DomainInvesting.com. ||||| Perhaps Google (Alphabet?) should have googled its new name before it decided to restructure the whole company. 
 
 The New York Times reports that Google's new parent company, Alphabet, has encountered an issue with german automaker BMW, which owns a fleet services company with the same name and the domain Alphabet.com. 
 
 A spokesperson for BMW told the Times the company isn't planning on selling its domain and that Alphabet was a large part of its business. 
 
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 With the major restructuring announcement yesterday, Alphabet launched abc.xyz as its domain name. Alphabet, led by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, is now the parent company of Google, a move designed to separate the core products (search, Gmail, Android, etc.) from its more far reaching projects (Fiber, Calico, X, self-driving cars). 
 
 While the move makes sense for Alphabet, it confused many. 
 
 BMW is looking into whether Google's Alphabet has infringed on its trademark, with no legal action currently planned. 
 
 Since the announcement, Alphabet.com has been down, likely due to the increased traffic it is undoubtedly receiving. 
 
 Other companies also have the Alphabet name. Reuters notes that more than 100 companies have trademark registrations in the U.S. that incorporate the word alphabet in some capacity. For example, Alphabet, Inc. is an Ohio company founded in 1965 that manufactures electrical components for the auto industry, according to Bloomberg. 
 
 Even the @Alphabet Twitter handle already has an owner. It belongs to a man named Chris Andrikanich, who is probably receiving a bit more attention than he's used to. 
 
 Well, that was an interesting way to end a Monday... — Chris Andrikanich (@alphabet) August 10, 2015 
 
 Y Combinator founder Paul Graham wrote a blog post saying it is an absolute must for companies to own the .com domain for their names just days before Google's announcement. While Graham says domains aren't as important for finding a company's online presence as they used to be, not owning the .com domain "signals weakness." 
 
 This might not prove to be an issue for the new Alphabet, however. Google founder Page said Alphabet wouldn't be introducing products under its own name, so it wouldn't be a public facing name like Google. 
 
 In any event, it's oddly comforting to know Google/Alphabet has the same problem many do when they're trying to purchase a domain for their own website. ||||| So Google is now part of Alphabet, a new holding company that will manage Google and all of its other products. Why is the new company called Alphabet? Google/Alphabet CEO Larry Page says it’s because Alphabet means a “collection of letters that represent language, one of humanity’s most important innovations, and is the core of how we index with Google search!” But the domain name for Alphabet is abc.xyz — not alphabet.com (which is currently getting hammered with traffic it seems). 
 
 It looks like neither Google nor Alphabet own alphabet.com — BMW does. Alphabet is part of the BMW group and a business mobility solution with a focus on fleet management and financing. Alphabet was founded in 1997, so it’s unlikely that the company will give up its long-established domain name. 
 
 Alphabet International GmbH recently won the International Auto Finance Network awards. This is totally not going to get confusing. 
 
 Bonus: Google/Alphabet/abc.xyz also doesn’t own the @alphabet Twitter account — Cleveland, Ohio’s Chris Andrikanich does. You can follow Alphabet under @alphabetinc, but not @abc — because that’s owned by ABC (and @abcxyz looks like an abandoned account). And that’s actually @aIphabetinc with a capital ‘i’ — not a lower-case ‘l’ — because that’s already owned by @alphabetinc. Confused yet?
– Guess Google execs are serious about that whole reorg under the Alphabet parent-company thing. Just days after Alphabet officially became Google's holding company, it scooped up a brand-new domain name: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com, which has been around since 1999 and was purchased for an unspecified amount, NBC News reports. The page isn't functional as of this post, and a company rep says, "We realized we missed a few letters in abc.xyz, so we're just being thorough." (Google set up that website in August.) It's hard to imagine Google directing the general public to use the site—would you want to type in all those letters every time?—and NBC notes the domain purchase may simply be a preemptive strike to keep others from usurping it for their own use. Two domains the company probably won't be able to get its hands on: ABC.com (for the American Broadcasting Company, owned by Disney) and alphabet.com, which BMW is unlikely to give up, notes Consumerist. If you'd been hoping to nab the domain for yourself, you can always try to cybersquat the site away when Google's hold on it expires in August 2018. (Alphabet has ditched its "Don't Be Evil" motto for one that's not as quirky.)