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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by EarthLaunch on Friday December 08, 2023 @08:01AM (#38568482)
I'm just disappointed that people go along with takeovers of useful words: x, meta, alphabet. If one was renamed "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" would people still go along with it? What's the limit?
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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by thih9 on Friday December 08, 2023 @08:42AM (#38568922)
We don’t need renames for takeovers of useful words, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_(name)#Modern_popularity

> Popularity continued to climb and Alexa was ranked in the top 100 in the mid-1990s. According to the Social Security Administration, its highest popularity, 39th, was achieved in 2006. The name's popularity decreased rapidly after Amazon picked it as the wake word of its voice service Amazon Alexa, which was released worldwide in 2016.

More at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2021/p...

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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by swozey on Friday December 08, 2023 @08:48AM (#38568991)
Alphabet is such a cringe name for a company no less. Especially with the meaning google infers. I bet they giggled like little kids in the board room that day. We're so cunning and witty! hehe!
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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by 7ewis on Friday December 08, 2023 @08:56AM (#38569064)
What meaning do they infer?
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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by swozey on Friday December 08, 2023 @09:01AM (#38569126)
That they're going to make a ton of stupid company names and it's their company-name umbrella dad-joke used for tax and legal purposes?

We didn't just all get the memo that that's the joke?

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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by edgyquant on Friday December 08, 2023 @10:31AM (#38570201)
Or it could be that they are obviously a front for the alphabet agencies
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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by swozey on Friday December 08, 2023 @11:14AM (#38570662)
lmao. I would love to have been a fly on the wall "We need a new company name!" "Alphabet!" "YES EXACTLY!"
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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by thih9 on Friday December 08, 2023 @11:21AM (#38570751)
> In a 2018 talk, Schmidt disclosed that the original inspiration for the name came from the location of the then Google Hamburg office's street address: ABC-Straße.

From Wikipedia about alphabet Inc

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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by swozey on Friday December 08, 2023 @12:19PM (#38571483)
What! Well that deflates my entire theory
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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by andsoitis on Friday December 08, 2023 @08:52AM (#38569022)
> I'm just disappointed that people go along with takeovers of useful words: x, meta, alphabet.

X is not a word.

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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by pjerem on Friday December 08, 2023 @09:42AM (#38569589)
Still, it’s probably the most generic letter that you can use alone in a lot of domains.

If you had the opportunity to buy any unique letter domain name of your choice but you may choose only one, most people on this planet would chose X because it can mean anything.

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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by voytec on Friday December 08, 2023 @10:24AM (#38570105)
> takeovers of useful words: x, meta, alphabet

Apple, Blackberry...

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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by notahacker on Friday December 08, 2023 @11:05AM (#38570563)
Shell, Ford, Coke...
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