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Last year, when dot .XYZ was taking pre-registration applications, domain investor Paul Smith applied for the domain ABC.XYZ.
According to Smith, it was the only .XYZ he wanted, for the same reason Google bought it: it’s a domain hack, indicating the beginning and the end of the Latin alphabet.
Despite getting an email that ABC.XYZ was on order, the email also stated that multiple requests would result in an auction.
As we all know now, the domain was never allocated via an auction, and was instead kept as one of XYZ Registry’s reserved domains.
Paul, owner of eCorporation.com, is not very happy with the way .XYZ handled this, and despite being a supporter of new gTLD domains, he expresses his distrust in this case, especially after the infamous robo-registration campaign between the XYZ Registry and Network Solutions.
In the end, the acquisition of ABC.XYZ by Google appears to have been a “childish” moment by Larry Page, former CEO of Google, who naturally has billions in cash for toys of any kind, even domains.
We all know certain names just never make it to the real domainers