{"id":134734,"date":"2015-08-11T14:36:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T12:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=134734"},"modified":"2015-08-11T14:42:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T12:42:21","slug":"abc-dot-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/134734-abc-dot-wtf.html","title":{"rendered":"ABC dot WTF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/134654-google-announces-big-changes-with-alphabet.html\"><strong>Larry Page recently announced<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0they had created a new company called Alphabet, where he will serve as CEO and Sergey Brin as president.<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, Google will fall under the new Alphabet holding company, with Sundar Pichai named as the new CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Many people high-fived Alphabet for its\u00a0cute URL &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abc.xyz\/\" target=\"_blank\">abc.xyz<\/a><\/strong>. However, it did not take long before the \u201cabc\u201d URL was used\u00a0to mock the company.<\/p>\n<p>The domain name <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/abc.wtf\" target=\"_blank\">abc.wtf<\/a><\/strong> was registered on the same day as Google\u2019s announcement &#8211; 10 August 2015. The URL redirects to Microsoft\u2019s Bing search engine.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Whois records, the domain name was registered in\u00a0Johnsonville in northern Wellington, New Zealand.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More about Google<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/134060-google-has-its-own-car-company.html\"><strong>Google has its own car company<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Google unveils self-driving cars\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/103135-google-unveils-self-driving-cars.html\">Google unveils self-driving cars<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google recently revealed its Alphabet company with the domain name \u201cabc.xyz\u201d. It did not take long for domain name \u201cabc.wtf\u201d to be registered, and guess where it redirects to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":82283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,32030,1938,167,2802,123,5666],"class_list":["post-134734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-alphabet","tag-bing","tag-google","tag-larry-page","tag-microsoft","tag-sergey-brin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134738,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134734\/revisions\/134738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}