Story · 29 September 2015
Google.com was once sold for 12 dollars.
$12
Google, 2015
Former Google employee Sanmay Ved saw in Google Domains that google.com was available. He paid 12 dollars and for a minute had the control panel of the internet's main site. Google cancelled the sale and paid him a reward.
$35
Microsoft, 1999
Microsoft forgot to renew passport.com, and Hotmail users could not sign in. An outside programmer, Michael Chaney, renewed the domain: 35 dollars from his own card.
If it happened to Google and Microsoft, it will happen in a company where one busy person looks after the domain.
