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Argentine version of Google falls into "wrong" hands leading to
search engine's temporary collapse

Thursday, April 22nd 2021 - 08:44 UTC
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"It is all legal !!," Kurona said "It is all legal !!," Kurona said

An Argentine internet user claimed realized ownership of the
google.com.ar domain had expired Wednesday, April 21 and since it was
available, he decided to purchase it for reportedly AR $ 540 (around
the US $ 3.85 at the unofficial exchange rate) leading to a temporary
shutdown of the search engine ending in ".ar".

These actions, however, had no impact on the international
"www.google.com" version.

It would seem that Google Argentina forgot to renew the site
google.com.ar and a user seized the opportunity to register it in his
name. The technical term for this type of manoeuvre is called  
Cybersquatting in English.

    Quiero aclarar que entre a https://t.co/XtzUy8WL36 vi el nombre
    de https://t.co/cK20BdyuxB disponible y lo compre legalmente como
    corresponde!

    -- Nicolas Kurona (@Argentop) April 22, 2021

Nicolas David Kurona said in his Twitter account @Argentop that <<I
want to clarify that I entered nic.ar I saw the name of google.com.ar
available and I legally bought it as appropriate!>>. Domains listed on
nic.ar expire every year and must be renewed, but this time Kurona
was faster. "It is all legal !!," Kurona said.

However, minutes later after the manoeuvre, it was confirmed that
Google has already recovered the domain.

Users complained about the failure of the website for at least three
hours, but when everyone suspected that the server had crashed, as is
often the case, Kurona's posting on Twitter revealed the truth.

Neither Google nor the nic.ar registry has commented on the incident.
In fact, the nic.ar site was out of service around 11 pm Wednesday
due to the flood of visitors who found out about the case through
social media. By that time, Kurona was no longer the registered owner
of "google.com.ar" .

According to the Open Data Cordoba group (which is dedicated to
tracking expired Argentine domains) Google's domain had not expired
and, in fact, the expiration date was in July. But the group too was
unable to explain what had happened or why.

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Categories: Investments, Argentina, International.
Tags: Cybersquatting, Google, Nicolas Kurona.

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