Sanmay ved registration#

Yet just as suddenly as those messages came, another shortly followed. He began receiving notifications with the details of his domain purchase. He then noticed that his Google Search Console had been updated to reflect new webmaster permissions for a “verified admin/verified owner” of. With the purchase complete, Ved received two emails from Google Domains confirming his order. “I thought, ‘Did I really just do what I think I did?” Yet, as he notes in a LinkedIn post documenting the experience, “Quite clearly, ownership had been granted to me. And then his credit card was charged the hefty $12 sum at which Google had priced its own website. It can’t really be available.” He tried adding it to his cart. Perturbed, Ved figured, “Maybe it’s a graphical issue. Quite inexplicably, however, the emoji next to “” was happy and green. “,” “,” “” and “” were all marked by a grey sad face, indicating that someone had already taken those sites. “And what’s the first domain that comes to everyone’s mind?, of course.”Īfter he typed this into the search bar, he was taken to a listing of purchase availabilities. “I just wanted to see how the interface looks after you search for a domain,” Ved told The Washington Post. He’s a self-avowed “fan-boy” of the site, and often tries its new tools in his free time. Before enrolling at Babson College’s business school, Ved spent five and a half years working as an account strategist and display specialist for Google.

Sanmay ved registration#

It was an hour past midnight, and Sanmay Ved was scrolling through Google’s own beta website registration service.

For one curious minute, the most popular website in the world was owned by a 29-year-old MBA student in Massachusetts.