The .XYZ registry got thrown into the world stage last night when Google announced the formation of a new parent company, Alphabet which would be using the domain name abc.xyz.
The new gTLD .XYZ got over 6,000 domain name registrations yesterday including hundreds which played off either the “ABC” theme, or Google and/or off the word Alphabet, includin;
abcgoogle.xyz
alphabetgoogle.xyz
alphabetgroup.xyz
Alphabetco.xyz
Alphabetholdings.xyz
abcdefghijkimnopqrstuvw.xyz
Alphabetinc.xyz
Getabc.xyz
Alfabeto.xyz (Alphabet in spanish)
You can see some of the more interesting registrations we found, some of which are going to create a lot of work for the lawyers over at ABC Broadcasting and Google for that matter (abctv.xyz, andriod.xyz) really? by clicking here.
May see the same type of impact on Twitter handles.
is there a market for twitter handles. @alphabetinc is the only handle that matters for now.
Nice one .XYZ, the dominoes are lining up.
Groovy
what a buncha drek
how much abbc.xyz
abcc.xyz
AND wwwabc.xyz
some of these alphabet soup registrations spell o v e r c o o k e d
We only registered one BigTable.xyz “Big Table” is Google’s new cloud based system that hopefully will become mainstream in the future-we already owned iBigTable.com
Trademark infringements
Actually BigTable isn’t a TM infringement it’s been deemed generic but I would think anything with ” Google” in it probably is in some form.
Sorry, I did not mean your name at all. I was referring to many of the names mentioned in the article.
Hi Jens and thank you. I agree with you that the names with “Google” there’s probably a TM issue with them but there’s so many in different forms i’d guess they might just go after the ones they feel are really invasive but who knows. You made a great observation.
Announcing that you interpret “BigTable” specifically as a reference to a Google product probably undercuts the argument that it’s a generic phrase registered in good faith.
6k .xyz domains registered in one day. Their single most popular day ever?
I bet it is for .xyz unless you count the time Mike Mann stayed up 24 hours straight and reg’d something like 20,000 names-lol- ( that number could be wrong-Michael B. Im sure knows exactly) but kudos to Dan N.-as he said on Twitter this morning-Boom!