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发帖数: 7881 | 1 Last fall, we learned that a former Google employee named Sanmay Ved had
managed to purchase the “Google.com” domain name for exactly one minute
before Google realized what had happened and snatched it back. Google on
Thursday revealed exactly how much money it paid to Ved as compensation for
his time owning its very valuable domain name. This being Google, you won’t
be surprised to know that it involves a ridiculously geeky joke.
You see, Google decided to award Ved by paying him $6,006.13. Why this
number? Because in traditional leet (a.k.a., “1337”), this spells out “
Google.” Google says it then decided to double this amount when Ved
announced that he was going to give his reward away to charity, so Google
paid out a grand total of $12,012.26 for its own domain name.
Amazingly, Ved managed to buy Google.com from Google Domains last fall for
the super-low price of $12 before receiving a cancellation notice roughly a
minute after the purchase. Regardless, this was a pretty good little
investment on his part, even if he did decide to give all the money away to
charity. Before today we had no idea how much his reward was, as he would
only confirm that it was “very Googley” in a LinkedIn post. |
