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.”
Meanwhile someone registered alphabetspoketomeinmydreams.xyz and XYZ registry got another 12000+ new registrations (that is 25000+ in 2 days)
Alphabet.com doesn’t resolve for me, can’t handle the (new) load?
yes and yes guys
Managed to arrive at the site through, Alphabet.de
we’ve got five-figures range offers on each of these typo domains on the table right now…
aphabet.com
alphbet.com
lol
Will this be a blessing or a curse for alphabet.com? Time will tell.
Won’t matter to Google. Blessing for BMW (millions of free hits!). Curse for the gtlds now that people see how bad they leak.