[url]http://www.businessinsider.com/this-guy-bought-googlecom-from-google-for-one-minute-2015-9[/url]
[quote]Ex-Googler Sanmay Ved was the lucky buyer of "Google.com," if only for a minute.
Ved told Business Insider that he was up late and searching Google Domains, Google's website-buying service, when he noticed that Google.com was available.
Instead of a gray sad face that indicates a domain has an owner, the green happy face showed it was available.
The cost to buy the most-trafficked domain in the world? Only $12.[/quote]
[quote]Ved added it to his shopping cart and, surprisingly, the transaction went through.
Instead of receiving the normal "you bought a domain" emails from the company, his Google Search Console dashboard, which has an overview of his other websites, was updated with messages for the Google.com domain owner. He also received emails with internal information, which he has since reported to Google's security team, Ved said.
"The scary part was I had access to the webmaster controls for a minute," Ved said.[/quote]
[quote]His run of Google.com was short-lived though. Google Domains canceled the sale a minute later, saying someone had registered the site before he could, and refunded Ved the $12 that had already been charged.
"So for one minute I had access," Ved said. "At least I can now say I'm the man who owned Google.com for a minute."[/quote]
That's a bit embarrassing, if he really had webmaster controls he could have done serious damage to a ton of people.
Kinda impressive its only $12. You'd think it'd run up a bigger charge than that, but whatever.
Those are some crazy bragging rights.
At least they refunded him.
I would have tried to sell it back to google
[QUOTE=DiBBs27;48802741]I would have tried to sell it back to google[/QUOTE]
They would have bought it for $12.
[QUOTE=DiBBs27;48802741]I would have tried to sell it back to google[/QUOTE]
and lose in court because thats extortion
[QUOTE=Map in a box;48802779]and lose in court because thats extortion[/QUOTE]
Don't think so, he legally bought it through their services, didn't he?
[QUOTE=Incoming.;48802813]Don't think so, he legally bought it through their services, didn't he?[/QUOTE]
I believe they own the copyright...
A company who's got a registered trademark can claim domains like this,
not to mention the supersized Google could likely just drop a buttload of cash on someone and have the domain transfered back anyways.
Still impressive none the less, I can't even imagine the possibilities if he'd been allowed to keep it.
[QUOTE=Map in a box;48802779]and lose in court because thats extortion[/QUOTE]
No it isn't
He did not obtain the domain through coercion of the company.
He rightfully bought it from a domain distributor. Regardless of whether google.com is owned by a company or not, its not his fault, it's the fault of the distributor for listing it.
The only way that this would have played out would have been google sueing the distributor for listing and selling an already owned domain and then paying off the buyer for the domain.
[QUOTE=agentfazexx;48802816]I believe they own the copyright...[/QUOTE]
This is precisely where his legal avenue ends.. IP laws.
[QUOTE=DiBBs27;48802898]No it isn't
He did not obtain the domain through coercion of the company.
He rightfully bought it from a domain distributor. Regardless of whether google.com is owned by a company or not, its not his fault, it's the fault of the distributor for listing it.
The only way that this would have played out would have been google sueing the distributor for listing and selling an already owned domain and then paying off the buyer for the domain.[/QUOTE]
no, its illegal to own a domain name that someone else has the trademark for and not hand it over
a little research goes a long way~
Sounds like a glitch of sorts. Doubt he would even be able to do anything with the webmaster controls
[QUOTE=Map in a box;48803005]no, its illegal to own a domain name that someone else has the trademark for and not hand it over
a little research goes a long way~[/QUOTE]
I don't know much of the terms and services, IP laws, etc, but would the IP not also be sold at the same time?
[QUOTE=Incoming.;48803100]I don't know much of the terms and services, IP laws, etc, but would the IP not also be sold at the same time?[/QUOTE]
It would not. A domain and IP are different and one being on sale by accident does not give you access to the other.
[QUOTE=Incoming.;48803100]I don't know much of the terms and services, IP laws, etc, but would the IP not also be sold at the same time?[/QUOTE]
The IP is held by the company. This guy bought the domain, not Google itself.
If he changed anything about the domain in the 1 minute he owned it, nobody would see a difference because it takes hours to propagate.
great bragging rights, now he can mark himself as one of the rare google.com owners ;)
Hell of a title to hold, if even for a few short minutes.
The fact that he could actually see what was going on inside of Google though during his ownership...yikes.
[QUOTE=Incoming.;48802813]Don't think so, he legally bought it through their services, didn't he?[/QUOTE]
no,people have tried this with companies who don't have common names, and they've lost
[QUOTE=MatheusMCardoso;48803593]If he changed anything about the domain in the 1 minute he owned it, nobody would see a difference because it takes hours to propagate.[/QUOTE]
That's utterly false. I routinely setup stuff with the handful of domains that I own and stuff propagates within seconds 99% of the time.
It's not the 90s anymore.
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;48807625]That's utterly false. I routinely setup stuff with the handful of domains that I own and stuff propagates within seconds 99% of the time.
It's not the 90s anymore.[/QUOTE]
I don't know exactly what you're doing but it still takes about 24-48 hours before stuff like a DNS change is propagated globally. Whenever I do something with my domains it takes a day or two to kick in.
if you've got multiple servers it takes a few hours for the change to roll over on all servers. single server isn't a problem.
It used to take ages for dns changes to propagate but lately it takes a couple of minutes
How the hell did it get listed for $12, anyway?
[QUOTE=Smug Bastard;48807808]How the hell did it get listed for $12, anyway?[/QUOTE]
.com
I wonder if this glitch could occur with other websites, and not just Google.
[QUOTE=wauterboi;48808057]I wonder if this glitch could occur with other websites, and not just Google.[/QUOTE]
Could happen,
The main exploit was that the domain was added to google webmaster, and if the domain purchased utilities it, then there would be some major privacy concerns.
Now that google is aware of the issue, I believe that they would mitigate it from happening again
[QUOTE=srobins;48807633]I don't know exactly what you're doing but it still takes about 24-48 hours before stuff like a DNS change is propagated globally. Whenever I do something with my domains it takes a day or two to kick in.[/QUOTE]
Depends on your server, mine propagates in under a minute. Unless you mean for your registrar to re-point to DNS servers, that will take longer usually.
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