In an interview with Business Insider, the Bostonian says the money is not important to him.
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Writing about the experience on a LinkedIn post, the tech enthusiast said he hoped he would get an error but the opposite happened.
Sanmay Ved, a former Google employee on September 29 ended up purchasing and owning Google.com through Google domains.
Google runs a reward programme that pays out to people who identify vulnerabilities in its online services, with amounts ranging from $100 to $20,000.
Like a viewer basking in the enormous, unstoppable power of the Death Star and then noticing, wait a minute, it looks like an enemy can just fire directly into that exhaust port, someone likewise noticed a recent chink in Google’s armor-or rather, that the armor was for sale.
Google changed its mind after acknowledging that he had managed to buy the domain name and made a decision to actually double Ved’s reward since he was giving it to charity. He has since revealed that was contacted by Google Security, who “offered me a $x reward in a very Googley way”.
Google’s new umbrella organisation does not own the @alphabet twitter handle either, with its owner – Chris Andrikanich – tweeting: ‘Well, that was an interesting way to end a Monday…’ after the announcement from the search giant.
“Google could do this given the registration service used by me (aka Google Domains) belonged to Google, unlike the 2003 event in which Microsoft forgot to renew their Hotmail United Kingdom domain which was registered with Nominet UK”.
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‘In my case, I don’t know what caused Google to lose ownership of the domain Google.com as a result of which it was available in the open market, ‘ said Ved. The pictures show that he simply attempted to purchase the Google.com domain, and the website allowed him to do so.
