Meet Man Who Bought Google's Domain For $12 And Google Have To Pay $6,006.13 When They Realized Their Error To Have It Back

Last year this guy landed himself the bargain of the year – he bought google.com for $12. Sanmay Ved snapped up Google’s own domain for a couple of bucks when he saw it come available for purchase on Google Domains, and now they’ve revealed how much money they had to fork out to get it back, virathread reports.

Sanmay was the happy owner of the multinational organisation for a grand total of 60 seconds, before the company realised that they’d made a mistake and quickly cancelled the purchase.

After realising their mistake, the internet giant offered the lucky chap an undisclosed fee. A fee that remained undisclosed until now… Writing in a LinkedIn post, Sanmay said:

“Google Security has now contacted me, and has offered me a $x reward in a very Googley way.

I have opted to donate the money to charity (Google has therefore doubled the reward amount). Per my request, they will now donate the reward amount to the Art of Living India foundation.

I have chosen that the donation be made towards the Art of Living’s education program which runs 404 free schools across 18 states of India, providing free education to more than 39,200 children in the slum, tribal and rural belts where child labor and poverty are widespread.

The schools nurture the complete child, including body, mind and spirit.”

They announced in a blog post that they have to pay $6,006.13 to have their domain back.