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He never actually owned it. This was just a bug in the Google domains control panel. The source of truth (I believe ICANN) would never showed a change of owners

He never actually owned it. This was just a bug in the Google domains control panel. The source of truth (I believe ICANN) would never showed a change of ownership.

yitchelle 11y ago
I wonder how common it is to have such a bug? I would have though the type of functions would be bullet proof.
scintill76 11y ago
Well, the original post talks about him getting Google Webmaster tools for google.com, which while still not "owning" the domain itself, is interesting because it means more happened than just the domain buying app thinking he owned it.
- callesgg 11y ago
  He bought it using googles own domain buying app, Presumably it is connected to the rest of googles stuff and the other way around.
  - scintill76 11y ago
    Yeah, I didn't mean the effects spread out of Google's stuff, just spread farther than Google's domain app.