How much would it cost to purchase the Google.com domain right now?
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Andrew McGlinchey, worked at Google
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Kartik Murthy, worked at Google and
Anshul Jain, works at Google · Author has 175 answers and 611.1k answer views
Since the owners of Google (Larry and Sergey) are at this point pretty much immune to money, it would have to be something of much more substantial value.
Maybe you could buy it in exchange for something like:
* an immortality drug
* limitless clean energy for the world
* efficient interplanetary travel
If you were the only one to have one of those things, and the Kings of Alphabet thought that they couldn't match it by developing it themselves, you might be able to do a deal.
I'm sure if you really had a super solution to limitless clean energy, its market value would be greater than Google's market cap. But even having all those billions wouldn't mean you could buy
Google.com, because the founders control a class of shares that are not for sale. And since, to the founders, the marginal value of extra billions is small, I speculate it would take something transformative to humanity to get them to do such a deal.