Sanmay Ved, a former Google employee, briefly owned the domain Google.com after purchasing it through Google's domain service. He received confirmation emails intended for Google before ownership was revoked minutes later. The article speculates how someone could feel like the "master of the internet" for those few minutes and discusses possibilities for what might happen, from celebrating the purchase to concerns about how power could be misused if ownership was not revoked. It concludes by asking readers what they would do if they owned Google.com for even a brief time.