Last September, an ex-Google employee managed to buy Google.com for $12. This week, Google googl finally revealed the details of how it reclaimed the rights to its own website.

It all started when the search giant accidentally put its own home page up for sale on its own web address marketplace, Google Domains. Sanmay Ved, a former Google ad sales specialist who is now an MBA student at Babson College, was perusing available website domain names late one night when he noticed Google.com was available at a price of $12 per year. Curious to see what would happen, Ved purchased it, and received confirmation that he was Google’s new webmaster, according to Ved’s LinkedIn post describing the episode.

Alas, within “a minute or so,” Google canceled the transaction,

Read more here: http://www.slimxclusive.com/2016/01/see-how-much-google-paid-guy-to-get.html

hmm..

that was close or just a PR stunt.


I wonder how much Glo paid to get theirs back.