The official Google Argentina domain went down for hours after its ownership was transferred to an Argentinan citizen.
On Wednesday, Google users in Argentina were in for a surprise after the country’s primary search engine went down for almost three hours. Assuming that the server had crashed, many users started expressing concern over what could be wrong with Google Argentina.
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The reality was much stranger than what they might have expected. According to MercoPress, an Argentinian citizen identified as Nicolas David Kuroña had purchased google.com.ar domain’s ownership for just 540 Argentinian Peso, which as per today’s exchange rate is equivalent to USD 5.81.
This led to a temporary shutdown of the search engine. The international Google, however, remained unaffected.
Kuroña’s Decisive Tweet
At around 10:45 p.m., Kuroña tweeted from his official Twitter handle @Argentop that he had legally bought the domain.
“I want to clarify that I entered nic.ar I saw the name of Google.com.ar available and I legally bought it accordingly – It is all legal!!,” he added.
Domain Successfully Recovered
A few minutes after the tweet went viral, MarcoPress reported that the Google Argentina domain was recovered successfully and its services across the country got restored.
Google.com.ar owned by Kuroña – Image: @mgonto/Twitter
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