What Happens When You Own Google.com For A Minute?

DOCKET Preface Google Domain on Sale Sanmay Ved Availability Of Google.com Confirmation Cancellation Master of The Internet You Become Evil Spooky What I Would Have Done!

PREFACE Google began in March 1995 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students at Stanford University Google Inc. is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products Google.com is currently the world's most visited website

Google Domain on Sale

Sanmay Ved Sanmay Ved a great fan of Google, since he worked for them for five-and-a-half years He reportedly left the company to get his MBA Sanmay Ved, an ex-Google employee, happened to own Google.com, for a minute on 29 th September, 2015

Availability Of Google.com Sanmay Ved was using the tech firm’s new domain buying service Google Domains at 1.30 a.m. on 29 September when he noticed that google.com was available to buy He added it to his shopping cart and, to his surprise, the transaction went through Ex-Googler Sanmay Ved was the lucky buyer of Google.com

Confirmation Sanmay received two s from Google One from and another from which usually doesn't take place when you book domains via Google Ved’s inbox and Google Webmaster Tools (also known as Google Search Console) was updated with sensitive information intended for the original owners of the domain – the webmasters of Google

Cancellation Ved managed to buy Google.com for $12 that is roughly Rs 800, the purchase was soon followed by a cancellation from Google Domains Google was able to revoke Ved’s ownership on its domain as the registration service used by him belonged to Google Ved’s ownership of google.com lasted a mere minute

Master of The Internet Contrary to the usual search bar and the Google logo/doodle that welcomes you, how would it feel to open the page and read, “Welcome, Master. What do you want to know?” The Internet is like an iceberg, and to sit on top of the iceberg has to be a special feeling, and that special feeling commands a special authority

Contd.. In the one hot minute, you become the source of the entire world’s queries, you are the source of all activity. Ah, what a feeling! Chances are high that you will start celebrating your best purchase ever, and I’m feeling lucky will reach different heights altogether

You Become Evil “Do the right thing” is still an ambiguous statement. What matters, is what seems right to you When power is erroneously handed over to someone, cataclysmic things can happen We quiver to think what may happen to the world if your alter ego takes over in that one fatal minute

SPOOKY You simply sit in front of your computer screen, and think what should be your next step of action In the meantime, Google officials are notified of the mistake, they take back what’s rightfully theirs, and leave you a mail saying that your transaction has been cancelled

What I Would Have Done! Welcome back to being mortal, when Power is on the tip of your finger I wonder how different people will take this opportunity as, maybe I would get all the cash transaction that takes place in my account & be the richest man on the planet Tell us your ideas, what wacky you would do if you own Google. Comment your ideas below…