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Report: Traffic to Alphabet.com Surges 5,000%; ABC.XYZ Gets 4 Million Visits in 2 Days

August 13, 2015 by Michael Berkens

According to a story in the telegraph.co.uk today, traffic to Alphabet.com surged 5,000% since Google announcement on Monday.

The Telegraph siting stats from Similar Web a “digital measurement service” says traffic to BMW owned Alphabet.com that saw “an average of 3,000 desktop visits” prior to Google announcement ” surged to almost 60,000 visits following Google’s announcement on Monday before spiking to around 163,000 on Tuesday.

The story goes on to report that the domain name abc.xyz domain received 1.9 million visits “immediately after the announcement on August 10, climbing to 3.9 million the following day, also according to Similar Web.”

Filed Under: Domain Industry, Domains, Google, New gTLD's, XYZ

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. Anil Kumar says

    August 13, 2015 at 9:06 am

    Meanwhile someone registered alphabetspoketomeinmydreams.xyz and XYZ registry got another 12000+ new registrations (that is 25000+ in 2 days)

  2. Garth says

    August 13, 2015 at 9:09 am

    Alphabet.com doesn’t resolve for me, can’t handle the (new) load?

  3. Michael Berkens says

    August 13, 2015 at 9:34 am

    yes and yes guys

  4. Garth says

    August 13, 2015 at 9:58 am

    Managed to arrive at the site through, Alphabet.de

  5. steven says

    August 14, 2015 at 3:27 am

    we’ve got five-figures range offers on each of these typo domains on the table right now…
    aphabet.com
    alphbet.com

    lol

  6. SoFreeDomains says

    August 14, 2015 at 12:54 pm

    Will this be a blessing or a curse for alphabet.com? Time will tell.

    • Marty says

      August 19, 2015 at 4:56 pm

      Won’t matter to Google. Blessing for BMW (millions of free hits!). Curse for the gtlds now that people see how bad they leak.


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