The U.S.-based search engine has disclosed that it rewarded Ved, a student from India at Babson College, Massachusetts, over $12,000 for finding a crucial security error.
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But how much did Google pay Ved for the domain?
When Sanmay Ved was looking around Google Domains last fall, he noticed that the domain for Google.com was listed as available and purchased it for $12, The Boston Globe reported .
In 2015, Google had to buy back its google.com domain name from an ex-employee who owned it for about a minute.
“A unusual thing happened at 1:20 AM Eastern Time on Tuesday, September 29”, wrote Ved.
Google revealed that the company gave Ved $US6,006.13 ($A8,459.34) – “Google” spelled numerically – for discovering the bug. He said he was browsing the company’s tracker in September when he saw Google.com was up for grabs. His order was verified, his credit card charged and he received an email confirmation.
Ved briefly had access to webmaster tools for Google.com before receiving a cancellation e-mail.
GOOGLE handed out more than $2 million to more than 300 people in 2015 who spotted bugs and security issues, but one reward in particular stands out.
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Ved donated the total amount to The Art of Living India – a non-governmental education and humanitarian organization – according to Business Insider, because, Ved told the publication, he’s “kind of a proponent for education”.
