Tech Talk | How a man in Argentina was able to buy the google.com.ar domain for less than $4

By Mathew Dickerson
Updated April 29 2021 - 7:19pm, first published 7:00pm
Many people are under the impression that they "own" a domain name. Picture: Shutterstock.
Many people are under the impression that they "own" a domain name. Picture: Shutterstock.

Stick with me while I do some back of the envelope maths. Google performs 3.5 billion searches every day. Assume that is one visit to Google per search. Google has country specific domains (like google.com.au).

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