{"id":1295,"date":"2021-04-27T11:38:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T09:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/27\/argentinian-buys-googles-domain-name-for-2\/"},"modified":"2021-04-27T11:38:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T09:38:23","slug":"argentinian-buys-googles-domain-name-for-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/27\/argentinian-buys-googles-domain-name-for-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentinian buys Google\u2019s domain name for \u00a32"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Designer living in Buenos Aires says he snapped up google.com.ar after noticing it available in registry<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s entire web presence in Argentina was last week briefly redirected to the website of a 30-year-old designer who bought the company\u2019s domain name for just \u00a32.<\/p>\n<p>Nicolas Kuro\u00f1a, a resident of Buenos Aires, says he noticed that the company\u2019s services were down when he began receiving messages from friends on WhatsApp. But rather than doing what many would have, and shrugging before returning to work \u2013 or taking the outage as a sign to have a tea break \u2013 he headed to the Argentinian domain name registry, NIC Argentina, to see if he could work out the cause.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/27\/argentinian-buys-googles-domain-name-for-2-pounds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b485b8d93386feb2e670667e260f1173592ffca5\/0_93_2536_1521\/master\/2536.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bf1c8952be40fb9b0ab5d41f4e29998c\" title=\"Argentinian buys Google\u2019s domain name for \u00a32\" \/>Designer living in Buenos Aires says he snapped up google.com.ar after noticing it available in registry<br \/>\nGoogle\u2019s entire web presence in Argentina was last week briefly redirected to the website of a 30-year-old designer who bought the company\u2019s domain name for just \u00a32.<br \/>\nNicolas Kuro\u00f1a, a resident of Buenos Aires, says he noticed that the company\u2019s services were down when he began receiving messages from friends on WhatsApp. But rather than doing what many would have, and shrugging before returning to work \u2013 or taking the outage as a sign to have a tea break \u2013 he headed to the Argentinian domain name registry, NIC Argentina, to see if he could work out the cause. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designer living in Buenos Aires says he snapped up google.com.ar after noticing it available in registry Google\u2019s entire web presence in Argentina was last week briefly redirected to the website of a 30-year-old designer who bought the company\u2019s domain name for just \u00a32. Nicolas Kuro\u00f1a, a resident of Buenos Aires, says he noticed that the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/27\/argentinian-buys-googles-domain-name-for-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Argentinian buys Google\u2019s domain name for \u00a32<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}