Google’s Argentina Domain Was Briefly Owned by a Web Designer, Who Bought It for Rs. 215 Google quickly regained the domain, but the designer wasn’t paid back. By Edited by Gadgets 360 Newsdesk | Updated: 28 April 2021 18:11 IST Google Argentina confirmed the news, saying that its domain was acquired by someone else for a short term Highlights He just tried to buy the domain and the NIC allowed it He also put up a tweet in Spanish, clarifying what had happened A 30-year-old Web designer briefly owned Google Argentina's domain name legally for a paltry sum of ARS 270 (Argentine pesos, roughly Rs. 215) when the site was down for nearly two hours in the country, and he said he could not believe “what had just happened”. Anxious that something might happen to him, he soon tweeted about it to clarify how the events had unfolded, a media report said. Nicolas Kurona told the BBC that last week he received many messages that the search engine was down. On verifying, he found that it actually wasn't working.