I was born again with 100 million

Chapter 43. Mail on Domain Names

For two consecutive weeks, Lin Xiaodu organized personnel to promote in various forums. In addition to his team, Wang Zhi's team was also fully mobilized.

He doesn't know what kind of phenomenon Internet cafes are in all over the country, but he can see that the usage and traffic of the website are constantly rising.

Half a month after the launch of hao123, Lin Xiao purchased additional capacity for the virtual space, because at this time he had already used almost 80% of the capacity he originally purchased. Behind this was the surge in user clicks and visits.

In fact, not only Internet cafes, but with Lin Xiao's promotion on the forum, hao123 also began to slowly enter the home computer.

In 98, there were not too many home computers in China. Most of these people had very good family conditions and lived in economically developed areas such as Yanjing or Guangdong.

Among them, many people will go to forums, such as Yahoo, Bihaiyinsha, the most popular online forums at present.

After Lin Xiao organized a wave of publicity bombardment, almost everyone who logged on to these websites could see posts about hao123.

Moreover, these days, the information on the Internet is not as flooded as in later generations, and the soft articles written by Lin Xiao are not so dry advertisements, so as long as people who click in and read the posts, almost all of them will click on the website.

The hao123 launched by Lin Xiao in 98 was definitely a forward-looking product. This kind of website designed from the perspective of customers hits the pain points of most people when surfing the Internet. reason.

Moreover, Lin Xiao thoughtfully posted tutorials on how to set it as the homepage of the Internet, which made many people feel that they had acquired a new skill, and also set hao123 as the homepage by the way.

As a result, such scenes were staged in different families.

"Dad, I found a very good website for surfing the Internet. From now on, you won't have to enter the website address for a long time when you read the news!"

"What online navigation, let me see."

……

"Hey, what are you looking at? Why are there so many websites?"

"Mom, this is the navigation on the Internet. I have set it as the homepage of the Internet according to the tutorial in the forum. If you want to go online in the future, just click on it."

……

With good word of mouth, and unprecedented publicity methods and efforts, Lin Xiao's hao123 began to spread rapidly among the user base.

On the contrary, practitioners in the Internet field are not very sensitive to this point. They hardly look down on such a simple product. Occasionally someone finds out that they just think this website is very interesting, that's all.

Therefore, in the industry, the emergence and rapid promotion of hao123 did not attract much attention.

But this is exactly what Lin Xiao hopes. He doesn't want to be noticed by people in the industry too early. He hopes that when someone pays attention, hao123 has completely become popular and becomes the only synonym for online navigation.

According to Lin Xiao's estimation, this time will take about half a year.

This side continues to launch promotions in major forums, and the frequency of Lin Xiao's visits to Tang Xingchang's laboratory has not decreased.

Lin Xiao will not admit that he came to Bai P to surf the Internet, he just cares about the development progress of the USB flash drive.

Lin Xiao is very pleased with the development progress of the USB flash drive recently. Judging from the information revealed by Tang Xingchang’s occasional chats, the theoretical calculation, circuit design, and program design of the USB flash drive have been completed. Once this link is completed, it will enter the To the formal hardware production stage.

Let Lin Xiao sigh, no loss is an academician-level figure, with technical leverage.

On this day, Lin Xiao came to Tang Xingchang's laboratory as usual. Before entering, the phone rang.

"Great wisdom?"

Lin Xiao just spoke here, and Wang Zhi's excited voice came over the phone.

"Lin Xiao, there is an email in our mailbox, someone said that they want to place an advertisement, please take a look."

"Advertising?" Lin Xiao was taken aback for a moment.

Two days ago, he also talked to Wang Zhi about his hao123 profit model, but in Lin Xiao's opinion, under normal circumstances, it would take at least a year to get the advertisement, and it may be that Wait for others to take the initiative to find it.

However, under the page of hao123, Lin Xiao still left an email address so that someone could contact him. He also told Wang Zhi the password of his email account and asked him to check it out in a few months.

Presumably, Wang Zhi was a little excited and looking forward to it, so he logged into the mailbox again today.

Logically speaking, there shouldn't be an advertisement so early, Lin Xiao was a little puzzled.

"Okay, let me see."

After logging into the mailbox, Lin Xiao saw an email in it, saying that he wanted to advertise on hao123, and he also left a number in it.

"Who is this with such a keen market sense?"

Seeing this email, Lin Xiao was very surprised. In less than a month, someone realized the value of advertising on hao123?
Surprised in his heart, Lin Xiao still dialed the phone.

"where?"

The phone was connected quickly, but Lin Xiao frowned at the unkind greeting from the other side.

"I'm the person in charge of hao123's website navigation. You sent an email saying you want to advertise?"

Lin Xiao explained his purpose, and the voice came from the receiver again: "Oh, it's from hao123, your website should be able to place advertisements, right?"

"Yes." Lin Xiao was even more surprised when he heard that the other party really wanted to advertise, and asked, "What kind of advertisement do you want to advertise?"

"A *product for *adults*. I see that all the Internet cafes in Yanjing use your website. Young people who surf the Internet must use this. How do you charge for an advertisement?"

???

What the hell?

I was reborn as a prophet for 20 years, and I made a website just to sell condoms and medicine?
"100 million." Lin Xiao offered a price that was impossible for the other party to accept.

"Give me the money." Sure enough, the other party hung up the phone with a "snap".

Some shook his head dumbfounded. Lin Xiao never expected that the first person to talk about advertising was not other Internet companies, but this one.

These days, the market sensitivity of those who do the Internet is not as sensitive as that of a person who sells *personal* products.

After calling Wang Zhi's dormitory, Lin Xiao told him the situation.

"What? Damn, I'm so excited!"

Wang Zhi, who was waiting for Lin Xiao's message, was a little hit with his high enthusiasm when he heard such a situation.

Lin Xiao also took the opportunity to explain to Wang Zhi that his website does not have to be high-end to receive advertisements, but at least it should not be too vulgar. Moreover, it is best related to the Internet. After all, the biggest advantage of his website is that it can attract traffic.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Xiao suddenly remembered another email. When he registered the top-level domain name www.china.com, he also left an email. It seems that he hasn't checked it for a while.

These two mailboxes are separate, Lin Xiao didn't tell other people, and he had to do it himself to link up with China.com.

After logging into the mailbox, Lin Xiao found that there was also an email in the inbox, which was just sent two days ago. When he opened the email, his eyes lit up.

"If you want to talk about the transfer of www.china.com domain name, please contact 010-45564XXX."

(End of this chapter)