Google drops Argentinian domain name, man buys it for $2, Google takes it back

Google.com.ar was a domain belonging to Google, the 1.5 trillion-dollar tech giant. The domain somehow lapsed. A man bought it, perfectly legally, for $2. Then Google took it back. Here's Nicolas Kurona, the 30-year-old web designer who noticed the site was down, couldn't believe the DNS report, and had $2 to spare…

At 21.52 local time on Wednesday, Nicolas bought Google Argentina's domain name.

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