A man who succeeded in occupying "google.com" in just one minute

The domain used for all Google services "Google.com", But Google's domain registration serviceGoogle DomainsAn event occurred in which an ordinary person would get it through via.

How I Ended Up Purchasing & Owning Google.com via Google Domains | Sanmay Ved | LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-purchased-domain-googlecom-via-google-domains-sanmay-ved


Former googler Sanmay Ved said one day Google's domain registration service "Google DomainsI've been watching the interface in a brief look and I searched to see if I can get the "google.com" domain thoughtfully. Then, surprisingly, the result screen displayed "Can you get google.com"?


Next, when you click on the "Add to Cart" button that appears only if you can get the domain, the google.com domain is marked with a green checkmark, and google.com is added to Sanmay's shopping cart It is said that.


Sanmay thought as "former Google employee" thought that "I get some sort of error on the purchase screen and I want you to stop the purchase procedure", but in fact it has been purchased for the google.com domain and charged from Sanmay's credit card 12 dollars (about 1400 yen) was withdrawn. The following screenshot is a message on completion of settlement received from the card company.


When I finished my purchase, I heard that Sanmay sent e-mails from "[email protected]" and "[email protected]" respectively. The contents of the mail are related to the google.com domain, and it seems that it is different from the mail usually arriving when you purchase your domain with Google Domains. In addition, Sanmay commented that it took about 1 minute to purchase.

In addition, Sanmay'sGoogle Search Console(Google Webmaster Tools) is applied automatic update,Google SitesWhen ownership of various websites using the site was changed, it was said that notification arrived at Sanmay.


Sanmay who succeeded in getting the google.com domain, but it seems that from that time Google Domains immediately received an email notifying you that the order in the google.com domain has been canceled.


When Sanmay checked the order history page of Google Domains, it says that the order of "google.com" was canceled and it was displayed that the domain fee was refunded. When you display the details of the order, it says that the message "Your order failed because someone acquired your domain before receiving your order" was displayed.


After searching for "google.com" again with Google Domains after the message arrived, it was said that it was "unusable".


Sanmay said, "I do not know why Google has lost ownership of the google.com domain," he told Google Security, Google said that she replied that he checked the domain problem. Furthermore, in 2003, Microsoft forgot to update the UK domestic Hotmail domain "hotmail.co.uk", UK domain registrarNominetHas acquired a domainEventThere is also happening.

· 2016/02/01 10:31 Addendum
This case was treated as a bug by Google and Sanmay was supposed to pay a bug found reward. Sanmay donated this incentive to charity for the whole donation, but the amount revealed only "more than 10,000 dollars".

Google rewarded the guy who bought Google.com - Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-rewarded-the-guy-who-bought-googlecom-2015-10

However, in our report on Google's 2015 bug discovery incentive program announced at the end of January 2016, we found that the reward initially was "6006 dollars 13 cents" (about 730,000 yen) and Sanmay Since it was intention to donate the full amount, it became clear that Google doubled about 12,000 dollars (about 1.45 million yen).

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Google Online Security Blog: Google Security Rewards - 2015 Year in Review
https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.mx/2016/01/google-security-rewards-2015-year-in.html