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Another New gTLD For Google: Buys/Registered Premium Domain ABC.Global

August 13, 2015 by Michael Berkens

Google has bought another new gTLD for its Alphabet brand which is using the domain name abc.xyz

Google registered/bought the premium domain name ABC.Global yesterday though its registrar Mark Monitor.

.Global has around 4,000 domain names that are priced with premium registration fees through the domain name registrar channel (however many registrars will not be selling those premium domain names until the end of August).

Rolf Larsen the CEO of .Global told thedomains.com that ABC.Global was priced in the highest tier of premium .global domain names.

.Global Premium domain names sold through the registrar channel do not carry a premium renewal fee.  All premium domain names renew at the normal renew fee which of course varies from registrar to registrar but is somewhere around $65.

At Hexonet.com, a domain name registrar that is carrying premium .Global domains, I looked up another  top tier domain name and it is priced around $4,500.

 

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Filed Under: Google, New gTLD's

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. Spencer says

    August 13, 2015 at 11:03 am

    .xyz

    .global

    Am I supposed to remember every extension?

    Too much confusion

    • thursday says

      August 13, 2015 at 12:54 pm

      dont worry, at least one search engine will make sure you remember all extensions.

  2. Seb says

    August 13, 2015 at 12:03 pm

    For sure, they’ll run into big troubles with Disney / ABC.com

    A lawsuite with BMW is also coming as Alphabet.com doesn’t resolve anymore because of the spike in traffic.

    • thursday says

      August 13, 2015 at 12:57 pm

      they wont get trouble at all. but we would had we tried something like that …

    • Mike says

      August 13, 2015 at 1:12 pm

      If it is some small company, not Google, we would already see tens of lawsuits.
      But it looks like BMW, ABC.com and other big fish have no balls to f#$k with Google.
      It’s junk anyway.

  3. Josh Pelissero says

    August 13, 2015 at 12:03 pm

    Let the rush begin lol

  4. Alan Dodd says

    August 13, 2015 at 12:20 pm

    They’ll be buying abc.wtf next. I’ve seen this with domain addicts. They register one or two, next thing they’re on the computer till 5am…

    • Tony says

      August 13, 2015 at 12:23 pm

      Bing already registered that a few days ago.

    • Freddy says

      August 14, 2015 at 5:13 am

      lets se if they go after abc.sucks as well.

    • Desus Nirist says

      August 14, 2015 at 9:54 am

      5AM? Usually that type of addiction lasts until you have a very long beard. Probably closer to 50 years or so.

  5. mark says

    August 13, 2015 at 1:31 pm

    Always found it interesting that G was never really investing in top tier domains, their MO seemed clearly to be about generating revenue from search advertising, and not in the content realm. So from that perspective, unlike other corps that will go out and acquire key domains related to brands they’re involved in developing or building, they would rather just pay $10. I suppose when you control who gets ranking anyway, their point of view seems to be why invest in a domain?

  6. Kim Kardishian says

    August 13, 2015 at 2:54 pm

    abc.link is pending delete. Grab it before Google goes for it.

  7. Michael Berkens says

    August 13, 2015 at 2:56 pm

    Somehow I think you will find that one in North Sound Names ownership

  8. Bobby says

    August 13, 2015 at 3:15 pm

    They’ve secured any and every “alphabet.nTLD” they could in the past few days but only a few “abc.nTLD” .global being one, as well as .how and .claims and I’m still going thru the list.

  9. Karl Jackson says

    August 13, 2015 at 4:12 pm

    Well just in case AbcXyz.Global could be the one.

  10. DNSal.es says

    August 13, 2015 at 5:01 pm

    ABC domain names were never that popular in the past: http://dnpric.es/?q=|abc.

    • Karl Jackson says

      August 13, 2015 at 8:06 pm

      Please realize Google made $66 Billion last year. It is Google that is making abc so poular now.

  11. Dietmar says

    August 14, 2015 at 7:54 am

    Will someone please tell Google that they can register Alphabet.google?

    Ahoi!

    • Desus Nirist says

      August 14, 2015 at 9:56 am

      Google.alphabet may be available as well.

  12. SoFreeDomains says

    August 14, 2015 at 12:53 pm

    By choosing Alphabet as a corporate name, Google is trying to prove that it is truly a company that has broken language barriers and I think the company has really done that – a truly global company.


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