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A man owned Google.com for a matter of minutes after successfully buying the domain name of the world's most popular website for just $12.

Sanmay Ved was scrolling through Google's new domains sale service when he typed in the address and discovered Google.com was available to buy.

Assuming there must have been a mistake, Mr Ved tried to add the domain to his cart - and was shocked to find he could.

(Image: Sanmay Ved/LinkedIn)

Writing in a LinkedIn post , he said: "I was hoping I would get an error at sometime saying transaction did not go through, but I was able to complete the purchase, and my credit card was actually charged."

Once the transaction was complete, Mr Ved received two emails confirming his purchase.

(Image: Sanmay Ved/LinkedIn)

Further inspection confirmed that ownership of Google.com had indeed been transferred to him.

But minutes later, he received an email from Google saying they had cancelled the order.

(Image: Google)

Mr Ved - a former Google employee - says he then alerted firm's security team to the breach.

He says the company acknowledged the incident.