Windfall: CentralNIC stands to reap huge profits from Google's sudden and rather arbitrary decision to use the .xyz domain for its new company, Alphabet.
Ben Crawford was asleep 12,000km (7,500 miles) from Google Inc's Mountain View, California headquarters this week when the Internet giant unveiled its new face.
Crawford, chief executive of London-based CentralNIC Group Plc, woke up in Sydney to learn that the domain powered by his company – .xyz – would host the website of Google's new company, Alphabet Inc.
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