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An education and humanitarian charity in India has benefitted from the American student who bought and owned the Google.com web domain for one minute.

Sanmay Ved聽gained worldwide fame after it was revealed he had managed to purchase the iconic URL for just $12聽thanks to a flaw in the corporation鈥檚 systems.

The business administration student鈥檚聽access was revoked within 60 seconds after administrators apparently realised the error. He has since revealed that he was contacted by Google Security, who 鈥渙ffered me a reward in a very Googley way鈥�.
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In a blog post, Sanmay said his actions were not motivated by money and he is not interested in making a financial gain from the purchase.

So he asked Google to donate the money to the , that focuses on taking education to the country鈥檚 slums. Sanmay wrote that it聽鈥渞uns 404 free schools across 18 states of India, providing free education to more than 39,200 children in the slum, tribal and rural belts where child labour and poverty are widespread鈥�.

Sanmay, who is taking an MBA at Babson College in Massachusetts, that the reward was 鈥渕ore than $10,000鈥�.

He added: 鈥淚 don鈥檛 care about the money. It was never about the money. I also want to set an example that it鈥檚 people who want to find bugs, that it鈥檚 not always about the money.鈥�

Asked why he wanted the reward to go to the Art of Living India Foundation, Sanmay said: 鈥淚鈥檓 kind of a proponent for education.鈥�