5/4/2023 0 Comments Sanmay vedThe domain name was bought by a member of the public who immediately contacted Microsoft and arranged to hand it over. Sanmay Ved, an MBA student in the US, managed to buy and own for around a minute on September 29 after an administrative oversight on Googles. The incident echoes a mishap by Microsoft in 2003, when it forgot to renew the well-known .uk domain in time. “The scary part was I had access to the webmaster controls for a minute,” he said.Ī Google representative said the firm was looking into the issue, but had not noticed anything unusual. Sanmay Ved thought his real reward was just being the guy who bought for a minute. Ved said he has reported the breach to Google’s security team, who are looking into the incident. It could have been a bug in Google Domains or the company simply failed to renew its domain name when the time came. It is unclear what happened to allow Ved to purchase the site. “At least I can now say I’m the man who owned for a minute.” “So for one minute I had access,” Ved said. Ved was refunded the $12 that had already been charged. The company quickly emailed him to say it had cancelled the order because someone had registered the site before he could. Ved’s ownership of lasted a mere minute. Instead of receiving the normal confirmation emails from the company, 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. The company quickly emailed to say it had cancelled the order and Ved was refunded. When Google first told him he wouldn't get any money as a result of the accidental transaction, he. Sanmay Ved’s ownership of lasted a mere minute. Sanmay Ved thought his real reward was just being the guy who bought for a minute.
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