For one single minute, an ex-Google employee became the owner of Google.com !

Former Google employee, Sanmay Ved, bought the domain right out of Google’s own domain-buying platform for just $12. Before buying a domain, he was hoping that he would get an error but he was able to make a whole purchase and his credit card was actually charged.

When the transaction went through, he got a flood of information from Google users and also got an email from Google to cancel the transaction. Google was able to regain control of the most-trafficked site on the web and offered Ved a $6006.13 which is a numerical version of the word Google.

However, when Ved said he intended to donate the reward to charity, Google doubled the amount to $12,000.Ved isn’t the only person who get paid for discovering a flaw in Google’s services. Google gave researchers $2 million for finding vulnerabilities across the company’s platforms in 2015.

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