How much did Google pay for the lost google.com domain?

Sanmai ved

On September 29, 2015, the hacker and former googler Sanmay Ved (Sanmay Ved) brought a rustle when he managed to buy the Google.com domain for one minute . The domain was free through Google Domains at the standard price of $ 12 per year.

Google realized its mistake within a minute and within a minute took back the most visited domain on the Internet. Now the details of that story have become known, namely the amount of the ransom (reward) to the hacker.

Screenshots of how Sanmai Vedas bought a domain.
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Google took the domain forcibly without any negotiations, but later transferred the amount of $ 6006.13 to the hacker for the payment of rewards for the found vulnerabilities. In leet-jargon 600613 you can read the letters, so the amount was exactly that. For Google, it’s normal to count with such amounts: last year, it (or rather, the parent company Alphabet) bought out shares for $ 5,099,019,513.59 - the square root of 26, and in 2011 Google paid $ 3.14159 billion (pi billion dollars) for patents Nortel.

Sanmai Vedus donated the money to an Indian charity who educates The Art of Living India slum dwellers. Learning of this, Google doubled the reward.

Over the past year, Google has awarded more than 300 hackers in the amount of about $ 2 million. Including the reward received and an experienced researcher Tomasz Boyarsky (Tomasz Bojarski), who found the vulnerability in the Google web form for reporting vulnerabilities.