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How Someone Acquired the Google.com Domain Name For a Single Minute
An anonymous reader writes with the story of how Sanmay Ved bought "Google.com" even though it only lasted a minute. BGR reports:We've all been there: It's nearly 2 in the morning and you're cruising around the Internet looking for new domain names to purchase. I mean, talk about a cliched night, right? Now imagine that during the course of your domain browsing, you unexpectedly discover that the holy grail of domain names — Google.com — is available for purchase for the low, low price of just $12. Testing fate, you attempt to initiate a transaction. Dare I say, you're feeling a little bit lucky. And just like that, in the blink of an eye, the transaction goes through and the vaunted and the highly valuable Google domain is in your possession. While this might read like a ridiculous plot summary from some horrible piece of nerd fiction, this series of events above, believe it or not, actually happened to former Googler Sanmay Ved earlier this week.
Also, please move the first button to the end, so I can read it as 'effing twit'
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
If the nameservers never reflected this change, this is just an accounting issue. He never had control of the domain.
Yawn..nothing to see here.
Parallel construction doesn't mean using a word wrongly.
However, whenever an incredible "trust me, I found this by coincidence" occurs, it's quite possible that they actually found it from a source they don't care to admit.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
We've all been there: It's nearly 2 in the morning and you're cruising around the Internet looking for new domain names to purchase.
Actually, no - I can't say I've ever done this. It seems like a colossal waste of time.
#DeleteChrome