The stranger who briefly bought Google.com
Even trillion-dollar tech behemoths forget to pay their bills. In 2015, a guy named Sanmay Ved was browsing Google Domains and noticed that 'Google.com' was inexplicably listed as available for $12. He bought it, and for exactly one minute, he had full webmaster control over the most visited website on Earth. Google scrambled, canceled the transaction because they owned the registry, and paid him off to keep quiet.

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