27-04-2021 12:37 via theguardian.com

Argentinian buys Google’s domain name for £2

Designer living in Buenos Aires says he snapped up google.com.ar after noticing it available in registryGoogle’s entire web presence in Argentina was last week briefly redirected to the website of a 30-year-old designer who bought the company’s domain name for just £2.Nicolas Kuroña, a resident of Buenos Aires, says he noticed that the company’s services were down when he began receiving messages from friends on WhatsApp. But rather than doing what many would have,
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