in case you owned google.com, you would get paid $6,006.thirteen

In a blog post detailing the 2015 "Google protection Rewards," the business enterprise wrote that it paid ex-Googler Samnay Ved $6,006.13 for the domain.

the hunt giant asks you to appearance carefully at that quantity, because yes, it does kind of spell out "Google."

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In October 2015, Ved turned into getting to know the Google domains interface when he discovered that google.com was to be had to purchase.

precise in a LinkedIn publish, he defined how he sold the area for $12 a year, a buy that turned into observed by way of an order cancellation electronic mail from Google domain names quickly after.

it's now not made clean how Google misplaced the area name, however Ved sooner or later contacted Google Securities about the incident (Google claims he owned the google.com for one minute). The group got again to Ved, offering a coins reward.

when it changed into observed out that the former employee planned to donate the praise money to a charity employer, the art of dwelling India basis, Google doubled the reward. See, it can pay to be type - and to snap up domain names to essential companies, if you can.