Hero buys Google.com domain for $12

For $12, one man briefly owned Google. Well, he owned its domain name.

In a on his LinkedIn page, Sanmay Ved, a student at Babson University, detailed how he was able to purchase one of the most iconic domain names in the world for just $12.

Ved was playing with Google Domains, the company's domain registration product, when he found that Google.com was available to purchase for just $12. Like any rational human being, he added the domain to his cart, clicked "proceed to checkout" and boom. Ved now owned one of the world's most visible domains. Read more...