Ex-Googler Sanmay Ved was the lucky buyer of Google.com, if only 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 sc-noreply@google.com and another from
wmt-noreply@google.com, 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…