If you owned Google.com, you’d get paid $6006.13

When Google realized that Sanmay was going to donate the money the company doubled the amount, that went to Art of Living India, an Indian Foundation dedicated to provide education to the slums. The company was quick to take the name back but, as Google appreciated Ved discovering the vulnerability, he was offered a reward. He posted his story on LinkedIn about how the incident occurred.

Last October, it was reported that someone had managed to buy Google’s domain name (Google.com), owning it for all, but one contentious minute. The amount Google paid him – $ 6,006.13 – is Google spelled numerically.

Google on Thursday revealed exactly how much money it paid to Ved as compensation for his time owning its very valuable domain name. He said he was up late one night exploring the Google Domains interface when, to his utter surprise, he saw that Google.com was listed as available.

For a single minute in September, Google.com did not belong to Google. But after the company discovered the altruistic student wanted to donate the money award to charity, it doubled the figure to $12,012.26. As pointed out by Business Insider, this isn’t the first time Google’s had fun with their payouts. In 2003, someone scooped Hotmail.co.uk from under Microsoft‘s nose. Although the company did not cancel the transaction like Google did, the purchaser of the domain returned it to Microsoft later the same day. Google says that its most prolific security researcher, Tomasz Bojarski, found 70 bugs on Google in 2015, including a bug in the online form meant for users to report security vulnerabilities.

So if you’re wondering what it feels like to own Google, Ved can give you a little of his insight.