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Me, Myself and I find this whole incident funny and incredible. But I have no other choice but to believe because it’s true and has been confirmed that Google actually sold its own domain “google.com” for measly $12 a year on its own domain platform (Google Domains). Google selling the world most popular domain name in exchange for a sandwich may sound odd and crazy to you due to the fact that these don’t happen. Certainly, “Google.com” can’t be available for sale now as its whole Google applications are hosted and linked to it, and also its sub-domains. In short, a former Google employee successfully completed the transaction on Tuesday, thereby acquiring the domain, but in his possession only for a very short time.

Sammay Ved, former Google account strategist was browsing Google domains (Google domain platform) and playing with its search console on Tuesday when he actually searched for “google.com” and noticed it was available for purchase at a ridiculous price. As a joke, or probably a test, he decided to drop it in his shopping cart, and then watched the slow process until it is complete.

He eventually clicked the order button and it worked. Sammay completed the transaction and within minutes, he actually bought “google.com”. As a confirmation, his account was credited with $12 shortly after the completed transaction. He received the complete ownership of “google.com” as well as its sub-domains. He was exited and full with scare when he started receiving emails concerning webmaster tools, which is uncommon when buying new domains.

Immediately, without hesitation, Sammay placed a call to Google to inform them their property is now his and that the company should investigate how such domain was available and be possibly purchased on Google Domains. Without wasting time, Google immediately changed the domain ownership, then cancelled Sammay’s order and everything went back to normal instantly.

Though Google has not issued out a public notice concerning this incident. This however was made public with Sammay’s detailed blog post on his experience owing the most popular domain name in the world for a short time span. On LinkedIn, Sammay posted screen shots of his account including proof of credited amount should you doubt. Google was very lucky Sammay happened to be the person that purchased the domain. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be typing this now. I am positive this will be the last time such mistake will ever happen. Such incident once happened to Microsoft several years back when he lost a Hotmail domain. Though the company had to contact and settle the buyer and secured its domain back.

Source: http://www.tabverts.com/2015/10/google-accidentally-sells-google-on.html

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