Reboot 2003

Chapter 177 085: All have a bright future
The importance of domain names has fluctuated dramatically over time. Some people think it’s just hyped up, and some people think it’s going to become more and more important... But domain names aren’t Bitcoin, they did play a role in the rise of the Internet, The time when the sky-high price broke out was the period after the rise of web2.0 and before the popularization of the mobile Internet.

During this period—that is, the years between 07 and 13, the stock of .com domain names just crossed that critical point, domain names circulating in the market began to become scarce, and the price of online advertising also decreased. At this time, the value of a catchy .com domain name will rise to the point where it far exceeds its original value, and during this period, the most related to the domain name A website is a social network...

Or to be precise, social networking in its expansion phase.

After 20 years, Facebook and Twitter can probably change the trademark randomly without worrying that users will go elsewhere, but if they want to withdraw the original domain name directly, it is probably not willing.

And the social network in the expansion period is not even mature for the first trademark, and domain name disputes at this time are very fatal no matter what...

In another dimension, thanks to Sean Parker's timely reminder, Facebook bought the domain name in time and avoided possible hidden dangers. In contrast, a more tragic example occurred in the future China.

During the period when China’s social networks were competing for the throne, Kaixin.com became famous for being the first to launch Happy Farm in China, attracting a large number of users to this website.

This cannot be said to be something that is very in line with Internet thinking. It is a very simple truth, that is, to build a website, you must first have a domain name, and then set a trademark, and the domain name is something that veterans "collect protection fees" from new entrants. If you pay the money honestly, or choose an affordable trademark according to your own situation, there will be no serious consequences in itself.

However, Zuckerberg, who started his business for the first time, seems to have made this mistake. What’s worse, he knew what mistake he had made through Sean Parker, but when he discovered the problem, the channel to solve the problem was already blocked. died.

After the defeat of the 'White Knight' Warner, they didn't want to leave halfway. Now they can only accept blackmail, naively expecting that this investor will really let them go.

Fortunately, this investor will really let them go.

After all, the so-called Santiago is just a primary school student behind him...

"Chen Qin, you big villain!"

It snowed again on the day after the exam. Children wearing padded caps gathered in a group on the playground. Among the crowd, a girl in the class had a piece of ice stuffed into her collar and chased that boy to make a mess of the playground. run.

It's really time to tease girls.

In a certain vanity fair full of feasting and debauchery, whether it is indulgence and pleasure, or talking about marriage, it may be a very serious matter. A certain person who holds a lot of money and legally holds the ID card of a beautiful village girl, and is very serious about it. All these predators who are well versed in the rules enter the arena, and very pornographic and violent things may have happened, but it is a pity that he is only a fourth-grade elementary school student.

Facebook managed to escape in the end, although some unpleasant things seemed to happen in the follow-up. For example, the original co-founder Eduardo Saverin didn’t know how to know that the equity contract Zuckerberg wrote to him was not added. The anti-dilution clause, and the company's financing has been delayed for so long, it seems that it has finally reached the point of collapse...

Fortunately, Santiago carried out the financing as agreed. On the third day in 2005, Facebook.com directly jumped to theFacebook to verify the unreliable gossip.

Of course, the rumor of the domain name dispute was also verified at the same time—the UDRP arbitration result has been made public, TheFacebook lost the lawsuit, and the reason why they can still get this domain name is obviously that the domain name holder and them have completed a settlement out of court .

Although I don't know how much money was involved in the transaction, many domain name merchants in the industry talked about it.

They said that if theFacebook had been established for too short a time and its trademark was not well-known, the chances of winning the lawsuit were really slim.

But the statement in the report is that Facebook operates a non-profit website, and there are rumors that Facebook did not really buy the domain name, but reached an agreement to merge with the non-profit website, so many people are on the Facebook homepage One pixel after another was searched, and some people even used some technical methods to crawl all the hidden links of the Facebook website.

Then I really found it for them. When they clicked an inconspicuous mark at the bottom of the page, they jumped to a page related to the mask culture of the Celestial Dynasty...

This discovery did not trigger a larger-scale discussion at the media level, but it aroused a huge-scale discussion on 4ch, which just emerged this year. Although the link location was quickly corrected, idle netizens were always keen to remove it from every Find it in the corner.

Netizens laughed at the ridiculous consequences of Mark Zuckerberg's failed business operation "face to face" on Facebook, and exchanged the newly discovered "page easter eggs" in the comment area of ​​Chen Aotian's blog. Facebook, which was originally in crisis A large number of meddlesome people poured in, and gradually some people traded Facebook accounts on the black market.

In addition, according to the previous concession conditions, Facebook raised 100% of Facebook’s equity with US$15 million, and with the help of San Diego, it solved the hidden dangers of another co-founder Eduardo Saverin’s equity. Zuckerberg Laughing from ear to ear behind their backs, it feels like they made a lot of money.

As for San Diego... Although the final financing amount was only 15%, on the day after the domain name arbitration, Facebook had another trouble. The trouble came from Eduardo Saverin, one of the co-founders of Facebook. One, but he himself is an outsider who lacks business knowledge.

He holds a high proportion of Facebook Class A shares, but has hardly equipped his equity with any anti-dilution measures, so that his ability to control his own equity is not as good as that of a primary school student; it is entirely because the company is caught in a domain name dispute , Chaos into a pot of porridge, Zuckerberg did not have time to use simple means of private placement to squeeze him out.

But he didn't know who's suggestion he listened to. On the day after the domain name arbitration, he threatened to freeze the company's account, forcing Zuckerberg to add the anti-dilution 'full ratchet clause', and withdraw his authorization to Mark Zuckerberg. Qualified proxy holder authorization.

The Santiago Group intervened in the mediation as a third party and led the two parties to break up peacefully. Eduardo Saverin got the money, and Santiago bought an additional 16% of Class A shares, and the shareholding ratio reached 31%. In fact, it was almost completed. From the initial investment goals, it seems that everyone has achieved the results they want. Even after Time Warner was revealed to have been involved in this investment case and was finally eliminated in embarrassment, for some reason, the company's stock price rose by two times that day. Percentage points, with the official arrival of 2005, everyone in this turmoil seems to have a bright future...

"Chen Qin, why are you bullying Zhang Xintong again, do you want to be fined to stand again?"

"No, Teacher Xiaomeng, we were just joking. If you don't believe me, if you ask Zhang Xintong, she isn't angry either!"

"Give me a sophistry, next time you mess around, I'll make you stand! By the way, you still go home with Xu Lingling every day. You didn't bully others in private, did you? Lingling's family is like that, and her personality is more introverted than others. You It's fine to bully others, but if you want to bully Lingling, I'll break your leg if I don't come to your house, do you hear me?"

"I heard it, I heard it, how dare I bully her..."

On the last day before the holiday, Chen Qin was caught and reprimanded by Teacher Xiao Meng for bullying girls, and went home despondently.After leaving the school gate, Xu Lingling waited outside the school gate as usual, and then went home with him side by side.

"Why were you bullying Zhang Xintong just now?"

Xu Lingling grabbed a little snow from a branch, pressed it on Chen Qin's face, and then giggled. Chen Qin wiped his face sullenly, thinking about what Teacher Xiao Meng taught just now, thinking who would dare to bully you.

It's not that I haven't done this kind of thing before, but bullying girls should be like Facebook, rushing around in a hurry, yelling, rolling eyes, and being willing to resist is interesting.

But this one didn't respond at all, Xia Tian threw the caterpillar over her collar...

Xu Lingling seems to be very afraid of bugs, but she just threw away her things at the time, and then stayed in her place with her head sullen, like a little doormat. Chen Qin made fun of it at the time, and never teased her again Well, when other boys tease her, they also come out to stop her. As time goes by, no one really dares to provoke her.

For some reason, Xu Lingling seemed very happy today, first she took Xuebing Chen Qin's face, and then said that she saw Teacher Xiaomeng's partner waiting for her outside the school gate, chatting non-stop about today's cleaning.

When he arrived under the kapok tree at the door, Xu Lingling suddenly took his hand. Chen Qin thought about how embarrassed it was to spread the news, but he was thinking about Facebook, so his reaction was a bit slow.

When he came back to his senses, a pair of big hands had already clapped on his shoulders—"Hey!"

(End of this chapter)