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It happened to one of our clients once. They bought a domain and then let it slip and lost the domain, only for someone to snap it up.

But, then again, they weren’t Google.de… according to Techcrunch:

…it appears to be because Google forgot to renew the Google.de domain
name. It expired and someone registered it. While the site was down the
site showed a standard domain name registrar parked page (probably
including Google Ads).