This sounds like you're sure the Google owner didn't hire the neighbour's nerd kid to register a domain and make a simple site for him. 
Things that cannot be compared. You trying to compare the corporate management of digital assets (with the domain as the basic asset) to a situation where a examplens just example account has been hacked and she now has to go through authentication and proof of ownership of the account. And all this while the administrators, who are in different time zones, may not be online, so the process can take days.
I don't know how the setup works or is there any such setup at all. If you are referring Google domain was hacked [I would say legally bought] by someone when it expired and then they decided to take it from the new owner and giving it back to Google then I think I read such story. Things that cannot be compared. You trying to compare the corporate management of digital assets (with the domain as the basic asset) to a situation where a examplens just example account has been hacked and she now has to go through authentication and proof of ownership of the account. And all this while the administrators, who are in different time zones, may not be online, so the process can take days.