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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'
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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.
No, he never owned the domain. google.com is registered through 2020 so the registry (Verisign) would've refused, and they certainly wouldn't have allowed the delegation to change. Even their system thought he had the domain for less than 1 minute. Clearly just a glitch.
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Even if you did manage to purchase a major domain what would it get you? For better or worse every case I've heard of where some individual was trying to elicit large amounts from a company/organization by sitting on a domain, the companies, without too much difficulty, took possession of a domain that related significantly to their company/organization. I suppose some companies would pay a bit to avoid litigation but not too much as they can get it with a little time and effort.
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cruising at 2AM for new domains to purchase
Cliche to whom?
Cliche to people who haven't heard of Parallel Construction.
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would've refused, and they certainly wouldn't have allowed the delegation to change.
Unless Google was doing something whacky like running their Google domains service he bought the domain through on the same nameservers that the Google.com zone was hosted on, And allowing the buyer to edit their existing zone contents without needing to change the list of nameservers.
I dunno, I'm not particularly avephillic but I'm fond of the "bird fucking" we have now.
he just said it COULD have been. You might know what you're talking about but you're an ass.
Actually, not more than two weeks ago I noticed it was due to expire this year. So, check your facts, Jack.
I think everyone's a little bit confused here. Domain name registry is provided by authorized registrars on behalf on top level domains (tld); in this case .com. The "nameservers" addresses are registered with the tld, which will then provide second, third, forth, whatever you want level lookups. I haven't read tfa but this had to be a registrar goof up. Most give at least a 3 month grace period for renewals even after it expires. And that's just for regular joes. I'm sure titans of the internet have special rules.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
It says the guy loves Google. Who the hell loves Google eh?
Fake...
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Parallel construction doesn't mean using a word wrongly.
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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.
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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.
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I succesfully captured google.com by adding it to my pcs host file with 127.0.0.1 ....
that'll teach them!
Just an attention seeking idiot, in my humble opinion. Just because a registrar's system will let you put a domain that's actually not available into the shopping basket and even lets you pay for it doesn't mean that you "owned" it at any point. It's like a real estate agent "selling" you the White House and accepting payment for it - doesn't mean that you now own it.
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Like when you're strolling past the impound lot of the Spurbury police station, minding your own business, and you suddenly get the urge to break into that Winnebago. Call it a sixth, or even a seventh sense.
Except selling a domain like that is explicitly against the rules and will result in you losing the domain.
Refer to section 4.b. i-iv in https://www.icann.org/resource...
Also note the date of the policy; this is not a new thing.
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Hey, I just bought the Eiffel tower.
Yet another article on bogus crap.
He started getting notifications that would only go to the owner of the domain, so it seems clear that he really did "own" it, at least according to one of Google's servers.
This must be some cultural reference that I'm too old to get.
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