Comment by EGreg

If you think Google had underpaid for this, imagine how much they got to underpay for this:

https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/29/10868404/google-reveals-h...

That guy is ridiculous! Could have made $50 million or more probably, if he had used a different registrar than Google itself.

He mentioned that Microsoft also let their domain lapse and that one was actually going to the open market... and what's more, they didn't even care when he contacted them! Oof:

https://www.theregister.com/2003/11/06/microsoft_forgets_to_...

Here are a few other doozies:

Apple forgot to renew their certificate for the entire Mac App Store, and didn't care much:

2014: https://www.macrumors.com/2014/05/25/apple-software-update-i...

if that wasn't bad enough... they did it again in 2015:

https://osxdaily.com/2015/11/12/fix-app-is-damaged-cant-be-o...

and almost in 2016:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/227787/75628