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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.
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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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.
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.
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
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.
Hush! You'll get APK going about his hosts file.