Reboot 2003

Chapter 13 Chapter 013 :

Xu Lingling read it out, but Chen Qin didn't look back: "Do you recognize it?"

"The teacher in the interest class taught it." Xu Lingling said, "daddy seems to mean 'father'!"

"That's right, it's 'Father, let's go'. Anyway, it probably means that, but it has nothing to do with the content of the website."

"Then what does it do? Is it also a registered account?"

"It's... well, it is indeed a registered account, but it is for the Internet industry to register an account."

Chen Qin said, registered a godaddy account, and then bound his own paypal.

In fact, he had almost thought of it just now - QQ numbers, Baidu Tieba accounts, these accounts themselves are of little value.

For example, five qq accounts, when qq first came out, it was free to register, and by 2023... I don't know how much it will be, tens of thousands? 10,000+?In short, it is definitely not cheap. I vaguely remember that it will cost tens of thousands in about 10 years.

For example, Baidu single-character id, although the price is relatively low, and the post bar can be renamed freely later, but the price was quite good before that.

The services received by these accounts are no different from those of ordinary users. The reason why they are valuable is simple, that is social networking. Because the popularity of the platform has increased, users with spare money buy one, and they can also save face when socializing with other people.

So this is actually a very profitable way to cash out, register in advance, and then sell when the popularity is high.

However, these are just some gadgets in the social field after all. No matter how expensive a QQ account is, it’s not likely that anyone will buy it. After all, except for the coal boss on the ppt of the Metaverse, most people who have too much money and nowhere to go will not buy a social network account with unknown meaning to show off to others...

In addition to QQ accounts, other social media issues should be the same, but it is a bit unreliable to expect individual social users to say 'buy a good account for face', but businessmen are different.

The basic environment for personal social interaction in the Internet age is that everyone is equal, but there are obvious social differences among businessmen, and domain name investment is aimed at the "pretty names" in the Internet field——

So the 'method' that Chen Qin suddenly thought of just now is also very simple, and that is the domain name.

Generally speaking, the Internet does not distinguish between men and women, nor does it distinguish whether a user is an organization or an individual. Of course, there is no label like an eight-year-old elementary school student. An individual is usually an IP address, but the IP is too difficult to remember. A domain name is an Internet name that is easy for users to remember.

And how much is a domain name worth?
Usually the price range is above [-] and below [-] million, which is the main terminal consumption range.

The more powerful ones are more than 100 million, and the star-level ones are often more than 1000 million.

Of course, it's actually a bit late to enter now.

Just like the time machine theory said, the domain name craze of the American Internet appeared in 1998, and the domain name boom of the Tianchao Internet appeared after 2001. During this period, Zhou Hongyi’s real-name domain name was the most famous—it was equivalent to adding a Chinese domain name to the domain name.

In addition, the threshold for registering external domain names is lower. This is a speculative business that ordinary people can also participate in. In fact, after the domain name boom in the United States in 98, registrations have almost been registered.

And Chen Qin actually thought about it before, of course the most valuable domain name is no longer available for registration.Whether it is used for domain name blackmail, or for future appreciation, the entry in 2003 is a bit late.

But just sitting in front of the computer and thinking about it carefully, in fact, there is no room for development here.Although there are many smart people in this era, after understanding the reasons for the value of domain names, it may not be impossible to choose some really valuable star domain names that no one cares about now...

First of all, to understand the value of a domain name, you have to start with the structure of the domain name.

A domain name is usually divided into three parts.

http, or ftp is a service protocol, and the following www stands for the World Wide Web.

If the qq number is used as a metaphor, this part is probably equivalent to Tencent. Without Tencent and qq software, there would be no qq number.

The second part is the top-level domain name, which is the domain name server. .com and .cn are domain name servers, and domain name servers have different classifications. Some are classified by authority. For example, .com represents a commercial company, .org represents an organization, and some are classified by country. For example, .cn represents China.

If we use qq as an analogy, these servers probably represent the service area, and accounts in different areas can have the same name. In order to avoid confusion, the name of the top server should also be added when entering.

According to the current situation, the more people use the .com domain name, the easier it is to be accepted by consumers. In practice, other top-level domain names other than .com are somewhat pheasant.

The third part is the second-level domain name, which is the most important ontology of the 'beautiful number'.

To make a domain name valuable, it is usually sold to a large company at a premium, so there are generally two ways of thinking - one is to register a bunch of baiduai.com or qq.ai and wait for the company's protective acquisition. This is the simplest way of speculation.

The other is to register a domain name with trademark value and then sell it to terminals or other speculators,

In 2003, these two ideas were actually not easy to get started-the first idea was fiercely competitive, bad character, and more importantly, easy to sue for lawsuits, and the benefits were actually not very lucrative.

The second is also a bit too late to enter.

After all, everyone can see a valuable domain name——

For example, when Elon Musk started his business as Alipay in the United States, he used the domain name X.com, but there are currently only three single-letter .com domain names in the world.JD.com’s jd.com and Xiaomi’s mi.com both cost tens of millions of dollars when they were acquired. This two-letter .com domain name can also be used as the trademark abbreviation of most industries.

In addition, single-digit and double-digit domain names are also very valuable. 58.com in 58.com has been treasured by Boss Yao for many years. The domain name king Cai Wensheng also used domain names such as 870.com and 265.com when he started his portal.

Of course, in the field of domain names, short is not necessarily the best.

For example, the highest single transaction in the field of domain name transactions is cars.com, which is believed to have an estimated value of 8 million. The star of the domain name industry without traffic is sex.com. The price has changed hands repeatedly since 2006, and no one uses it. It is basically speculated, but no one denies its value.

In the past year, the highest-priced domain name that Chen Qin could find was savings.com, priced at US$190 million. Because of the Internet bubble, the price of ordinary two-letter domain names in the same year ranged from US$1 to US$10. Even qq.com was bought by Tencent for only US$11...

This also illustrates one of the most important truths in domain name investment, that is, meaning is king.

Generally speaking, users don’t mind typing a few more letters—of course, it’s better to have less than eight letters—and they don’t mind using a domain name other than .com. If it’s a trump second-level domain name like sex, car, or voice, even if it’s followed by a pheasant suffix like .flowers or .coffee, it’s still expensive.

In addition, Chen Qin knows the future development trend of the industry.

The United States Internet now has a relatively mature market, but for China Internet, the development direction of the domain name industry is still not clear.

Zhou Hongyi’s real-name domain name and Wanwang’s Chinese domain name are a more radical approach. Cai Wensheng and others are more conservative in hoarding province and city domain names and then negotiating with various places to sell them for money. Generally speaking, people on both sides have made money.

But from the perspective of the reborn, neither side is actually betting right.

The first is the Chinese domain name or domain name real-name system, and then basically collapsed, and now the mainstream domain name of the Chinese Internet is still an ordinary .com domain name.

And the meaning is king-this point is similar to the Internet in China and the United States.

It's just that the meaning of an English word is not very grounded in China.

According to the development of the Internet in the next 20 years, the meaning domain name chosen by the Chinese Internet market is another type, that is, the Shuangpin.com domain name.

Latin characters are based on words, but for Chinese Internet users, two-character words are the most familiar brands. According to the time machine theory, China in 2003 was just in the midst of a domain name craze similar to that of the United States. Those domain names with short letters, English words, and short numbers had already been registered before 1998, but there is still great potential for double-pin domain names that will be popular in the Chinese cultural circle in the future.

Chen Qin did a general search. Of course, Baidu already has it now. Weibo, Douyu and WeChat have also been registered.

But in addition, the domain names of almost most of the big Internet brands in the future are still not registered.

For example...

Taobao, Zhihu, Douyin, Kuaishou, Meituan, Haitao, Xianyu, Youku.

Basically, most of the domain names of large enterprises that can be imagined and will dominate in the future are now quietly lying in the domain name pool.

$10 bets one, including the first year of maintenance, and you can take it when you pay.

"call."

Chen Qin exhaled slowly, feeling his heart beating violently.

But he has to hold on.

He flipped through the schedule, wrote down all these domain names on the back, and made a list.

then……

None of them were bought.

Of course, this is not unaffordable. Now that he has a little spare money, buying 10 or so domain names is not a problem at all, and he should be able to afford it.

Moreover, these domain names themselves are also very good domain names. If they get 2023, each one can be worth more than one million...as long as they can be sold.

However, Chen Qin does not plan to buy these domain names for the time being, and even most of them, he has no plans to preemptively register them.

This aspect is of course to avoid the butterfly effect, so as not to affect future money-making plans... Of course it is a bit of a common sense that a butterfly can set off a big storm by flapping its wings, but if you take off the roof of someone's house, if it can't cause historical impact, then he has to think about whether he is in the world of Truman.

On the other hand, it is because these domain names are not the most valuable domain names in the first place.

Just like the conclusion just now, the outlet for domain names lies in two aspects, one is the protective acquisition of large companies, and the other is its own value.

If it is only used for domain name blackmail, although these domain names are good, they may even contain the most important reason for the rise of those companies...

However, whether a domain name is valuable or not depends on a lot of metaphysical factors. In most cases, it is very common for start-up teams to design a company brand based on the domain name they have already obtained. Many entrepreneurs even have a domain name first, and then think about doing a corresponding project.

For them, an overly expensive domain name is really not cost-effective, and it is difficult to sell such a domain name at a high price. Not every Lekutian can bump into a buyer who has taken advantage of his brain.

Even if you list Zhihu with 100 million in advance, maybe people will change the name to Bihu the next day; when the brand has not yet been established, the domain name itself cannot have any blackmail value at all.

Knowing these two points, you can understand what kind of domain name to buy now—that is, a meaningful Shuangpin domain name.

Like cars, fashion, music, games.

These domain names are not necessarily domain names that industry leaders will use. It is hard to say whether the actual effect will be better than domain names like 'Zhihu' and 'Baidu'.

However, the terminals with the highest bids in the domain name industry are often those large cross-industry companies, or some star entrepreneurs who have no projects at hand. These players often use some relatively old-fashioned methods when entering a new industry. Buying such a simple and straightforward domain name that everyone can see is very valuable is a foolproof choice.

Of course, such celebrity domain names that most people can think of have already been registered.

If you want it, you can either buy it, or wait for the target to forget to renew and drop the preemptive registration.

However, these domain names are only valuable domain names that novices can know. For the reborn, they can always think of some better choices——

Chen Qin quickly finalized the first batch of domain names to buy.

Takeaway (waimai.com)

Group buying (tuangou.com)

Navigation (daohang.com)

Cloud disk (yunpan.com)

Headlines (toutiao.com)

American drama (meiju.com)

They are all hot spots in the future, but no one cares about them in 2003; although it is simple and straightforward, according to metaphysical factors, the effect may not be the best, but the price must be the most expensive.

In a blink of an eye, the six places were gone, and four more could be registered.

Of course, there are many more valuable Shuangpin domain names. Chen Qin also found other popular domain names such as blind date, sharing, ordering, mobile games, carpooling, and micro-business, or brand domain names such as happy, reunion, melon seeds, and potatoes, which are relatively short, fluent, and have better meanings.

It's a pity that the budget is limited now, and this kind of relatively long one can be put aside for the time being, and it is easy to be snatched by registering first.

For example, aini.com, which can probably be sold to Blind Date, is a natural double-spelled domain name with diphthongs in the four-letter domain name, which is better than the straightforward Blind Date.com.

bico.com is also a four-letter diphthong. In the future, the virtual currency will be sold to speculators.

metacoin.com, above.

zhifu.com, I thought it was gone, but after checking, it is still there. Considering that the rise of online payment is a recent thing, it probably won’t be long before it will come in handy.

The purchase of ten domain names is completed, and the registration information is all written in the San Diego company, personal information is not written, and they are installed in three godaddy accounts respectively.Of course, the price of godaddy is indeed a bit expensive. In fact, there are many cheaper registrars. However, domain name transactions are tricky. Even the semi-official China Wanwang has a lot of ugly dark history besides the real name. To be on the safe side, it is better to leave it with godaddy first.

The mailbox is tied up, the money is paid, and the hard-earned money earned in a few days flows into the pocket of the service provider.

But... how should I put it.

Chen Qin breathed a sigh of relief.

His heart was pounding, and it was only then that Chen Qin realized that "Tom and Jerry" had been put backstage by him at some point.

Looking back, I saw that Xu Lingling was lying on the computer chair and fell asleep.

Tears that hadn't been wiped away just now were faintly visible on her face, but there were biscuit crumbs left at the corner of her mouth.

The girl had eaten all the snacks bought on the table, and there wasn't even a biscuit left for him.

(End of this chapter)