This Person Owns Google.com for 1 Minute, Gets Paid Rs. 8 Lakh

  

Google pays Rs 8 lakh to Sanmay Ved who owned 'google.com' for just a minute

 

Google has paid Sanmay Ved, the man who owned Google.com for a minute, $6,006.13 (about Rs. 4.07 lakh) and later doubled the amount when he donated his reward to charity.

In September 2015, the ex-Googler, while searching Google Domains, found that Google.com (domain name) was available for purchase. He bought the domain for $12 and gained access to its webmaster tools before Google cancelled the sale.

However, the Mandvi resident (in country's Kutch region) had said it was never about money and he wanted the amount to be donated to the Art of Living India Foundation.

"You may have read about Sanmay Ved, a researcher who was able to buy Google.com for one minute on Google Domains. Our initial financial reward to Sanmay - $6,006.13 - spelled-out Google, numerically (squint a little and you'll see it!). We then doubled this amount when Sanmay donated his reward to charity," Google said in a blog post.

Ved, in a post on LinkedIn, had said he chose his award to be donated to the Art of Living's education programme which runs 404 free schools across 18 states in India, providing free education to more than 39,200 children living in slums, tribal and rural belts where child labour and poverty are widespread.

Google said researchers from all over the world, coming from countries like Great Britain, Poland, Germany, Romania, Israel, Brazil, the US, China, Russia and India, participated in its security rewards programme.

In 2015, Google gave $2 million in rewards to over 300 people. The programme which was started in 2010 has seen Google giving out over $6 million in rewards so far.

It said it has paid more than $200,000 to researchers for their work under Google's Android (mobile operating system) VRP programme launched in June 2015