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See A Vital Mistake Made By Google; Google Bought By A US Student! by angiography(m): 6:35pm On Oct 12, 2015 |
A man who briefly bought and owned the Google.com web domain has been rewarded by the search giant. An administration oversight allowed US student Sanmay Ved to buy the right to control the domain on 29 September. The oversight left him in charge of Google.com for about a minute until Google caught on and cancelled the transaction. Now Mr Ved has been given a cash reward for spotting the error, which he has decided to donate to charity. Google declined to comment on the story. Mr Ved detailed his experience in a post on the LinkedIn site saying that he had been keeping an eye on Google-related web domains for some time because he used to work at the search giant. Mr Ved is currently an MBA student at a US college. In the early hours of 29 September he noticed a for sale sign next to the Google.com name while browsing sites on Google's own website-buying service. He used a credit card to pay the $12 (£ fee to grab google.com and got emails confirming he was the owner. Almost immediately he started getting messages intended for Google's own web administration team. This was followed by a cancellation message sent by the website buying service which said he could not take over Google.com because someone else had already registered it and his $12 payment was refunded. Now it has emerged that Mr Ved has been given a "bug bounty" by Google's security team for revealing the weakness in the domain buying system. The internal emails Mr Ved received while in charge of google.com have been passed to this team. Mr Ved decided to give the cash to an Indian educational foundation and in response, Google doubled the reward. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34504319 |
Re: See A Vital Mistake Made By Google; Google Bought By A US Student! by QTEST007(m): 6:54pm On Oct 12, 2015 |
Rivers of blessings, please flow my way. biko. |
Re: See A Vital Mistake Made By Google; Google Bought By A US Student! by angiography(m): 6:59pm On Oct 12, 2015 |
QTEST007::Dhe got it while 'keeping eyes on google domain' tho. Lesson; keep focus on ur interest, job, from there shall ur river of blessing come But the guy sharp o |
Re: See A Vital Mistake Made By Google; Google Bought By A US Student! by Nobody: 10:19pm On Oct 12, 2015 |
Keenly eyeing Nairaland domain |
Re: See A Vital Mistake Made By Google; Google Bought By A US Student! by angiography(m): 8:20am On Oct 13, 2015 |
Karmanaut:Lol...u think seun will pay you to have it back?? |
Re: See A Vital Mistake Made By Google; Google Bought By A US Student! by Nobody: 8:33am On Oct 13, 2015 |
angiography:Of course. I'll make sure to milk him dry. Unless of course he's tired of nairaland. Then I'll be its new owner. |
Re: See A Vital Mistake Made By Google; Google Bought By A US Student! by angiography(m): 9:06am On Oct 13, 2015 |
Karmanaut:You have to donate the money earn to my charity -just like that Indian man too |
Re: See A Vital Mistake Made By Google; Google Bought By A US Student! by Nobody: 9:33am On Oct 13, 2015 |
angiography:If Seun pays me I'll name my bank account Charity and pay to it. |
Re: See A Vital Mistake Made By Google; Google Bought By A US Student! by angiography(m): 9:42am On Oct 13, 2015 |
Karmanaut:Lol...now that's geniusgenius Have a gud day bro |
Re: See A Vital Mistake Made By Google; Google Bought By A US Student! by Nobody: 10:03am On Oct 13, 2015 |
angiography:Cheers. You too. |
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