October 1, 2015 at 14:44Google.com domain bought for one minute
Ex Googler Sanmay Ved became the owner of the google.com domain, but only for one minute.
Ved said that he sat late at night and looked for domains through Google Domains , when he unexpectedly found a record in the search results that Google.com was available for purchase. Instead of a gray icon indicating that the domain is busy, there was a green emoticon indicating that the domain can be bought.
The price of the domain with the largest traffic in the world was $ 12.
At first, Ved thought it was a bug and added the domain to the basket. Domain successfully added. Surprisingly, when he paid for the purchase, the transaction was successful!
In his post on linkedin, he posted screenshots of the domain in google webmaster tools. A minute later, Google Domains canceled his transaction with the message that someone had bought this domain before him and they returned him $ 12.
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Ved said that he sat late at night and looked for domains through Google Domains , when he unexpectedly found a record in the search results that Google.com was available for purchase. Instead of a gray icon indicating that the domain is busy, there was a green emoticon indicating that the domain can be bought.
The price of the domain with the largest traffic in the world was $ 12.
At first, Ved thought it was a bug and added the domain to the basket. Domain successfully added. Surprisingly, when he paid for the purchase, the transaction was successful!
In his post on linkedin, he posted screenshots of the domain in google webmaster tools. A minute later, Google Domains canceled his transaction with the message that someone had bought this domain before him and they returned him $ 12.
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