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Web Designer Buys Google’s Argentina Domain Name for $3 – PCMag AU
It’s unclear how this was allowed to happen as the domain hadn’t expired.
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Google and Buenos Aires web designer Nicolas Kurona both had a big surprise last week when Kurona successfully managed to take control of Google’s domain name for Argentina.
As the BBC reports, last Wednesday Google was down in Argentina and Kurona decided to try and find out why using the Network Information Center Argentina (NIC), which handles .ar domain names in the country. To his surprise, google.com.ar appeared as available for purchase at a cost of just…
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