What Happens When You Own Google.com For A Minute?
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Sanmay Ved, a former Google employee, briefly owned the domain Google.com after purchasing it through Google's domain service. He received confirmation emails intended for Google before ownership was revoked minutes later. The article speculates how someone could feel like the "master of the internet" for those few minutes and discusses possibilities for what might happen, from celebrating the purchase to concerns about how power could be misused if ownership was not revoked. It concludes by asking readers what they would do if they owned Google.com for even a brief time.
What Happens When You Own Google.com For A Minute?
- 1. What Happens When You Own Google.com For A Minute?
- 2. DOCKET • Preface • Google Domain on Sale • Sanmay Ved • Availability Of Google.com • Confirmation Email • Cancellation Email • Master of The Internet • You Become Evil • Spooky • What I Would Have Done!
- 3. 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
- 4. Google Domain on Sale
- 5. 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 29th September, 2015
- 6. 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
- 7. Confirmation Email • Sanmay received two emails from Google • One from [email protected] and another from [email protected], which usually doesn't take place when you book domains via Google Domains • 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
- 8. Cancellation Email • Ved managed to buy Google.com for $12 that is roughly Rs 800, the purchase was soon followed by a cancellation email 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
- 9. 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
- 10. 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
- 11. 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
- 12. 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
- 13. 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…