Chichodovan domain name sleeps in farmers Warehouse

Zhejiang online May 20, according to the "Youth times" reported big faint in the city. Use this sentence to describe the domain name speculators more apt, they are accustomed to call themselves "rice farmers", because the domain name homophonic "corn".

In the 10 years of rapid development of the domestic Internet, the first batch of "rice farmers" has grown into the industry: perhaps they have no explosive growth in their bank deposits, but they are hosted on the network's Domain name warehouse (also known as "Rice Library") scale is quite spectacular.

In Hangzhou there is such a domain name Big guy Lim, 10 years ago or Wenzhou a school computer teacher, its "rice storehouse" has saved at least 70,000 domain names, the annual maintenance cost is as high as 5 million. And the recent network rumors will be Sina acquired for micro-bo rare domain name--t.cn, it is related to this person.

T.cn's worth millions.

t.cn reappear.

Recently, the domestic website posted a message, said "Sina has bought t.cn domain name, will be directly applied to Sina Weibo." Reporter contacted the trading platform "China" related to the responsible person, confirmed that t.cn did in the platform in recent transactions. However, in view of confidentiality agreements, the identities and prices of both parties are not publicly available.

"The price is at least 1 million, up to 5 million." "Professional domain name speculators old told reporters, in the industry today, the price, the single letter domain name is at least 1 million, although according to the letter different each have a high and low, but compared to 5 years ago, the minimum also doubled 10 times times. "T.cn's value is a classic. In the past 7 years, T.cn's market value has doubled, 2003 Net Jing spent 280 yuan to buy, by 2006, Lim bought the price rose to 110,000 yuan.

The reporter then contacted Hangzhou 365 network in charge of Lim, but he told reporters this domain name he had already sold. "I did spend 110,000 on t.cn in 2006, but after a few months I sold it for a hundred thousand of," he said. Lim said, as to who the buyer is, he is not convenient to disclose.

Up to 5 million annual costs

"Playing domain name circle is very small, the net worth tens of millions of not more than 100 people." Ziyuhai, general manager of the famous business network, said that the major speculators were distributed in Guangdong, Zhejiang and Beijing, while Zhejiang accounted for half of them. "A few domain name big guy, hand all have tens of thousands of domain names." Ziyuhai says his boss, Lim, who once owned t.cn, is one of them.

"The real big guy is usually 2000 years or so start to play, 2005 years after the entry is difficult to make a lot of money." Ziyuhai said that the precious domain name is basically in the first group of people to enter. "Those people will keep looking for potential buyers, timing will sell the domain name at a high price, and then use cash to continue to eat a lot of domain names." Like a snowball rolling more and more. ”

There are insiders told reporters that Lim is the "snowball" model bigger, now he has an investment company has tun 780,000 domain names, annual light paid annual fee of up to 5 million yuan. "Indeed there is so much." Ziyuhai said, value is not good, at least worth 100 million.

The rules: the shorter the more precious

In the domain name of the lake, has always followed the "shorter and more precious" law, but not every single letter domain name can sell a good price.

"T.cn early years are not noticeable, the recent rise in prices, all from the emergence of micro-blog." "Domain name trading platform," the market director Xiao Cui told reporters that the majority of the price of a single letter domain name depends on the potential buyers of the domain name. y.cn, for example, can think of Yahoo (Yahoo), its value is much higher than the other several, may be as high as 5 million, or m.cn, the first thing to think of Microsoft (Microsoft), the market price of 10 million is not much.

The value of T is Twitter, the microblogging that has sprung up in recent years, says Cui. In addition to the Twitter company itself, Sina Weibo, the country's largest microblogging site, and Tencent, which has been trying to kill the market, is indeed the biggest potential buyer for the domain name. "If there is no twitter,t.cn, it will not be worth so much money." ”

It is reported that 2007 Google has spent 20 million U.S. dollars to acquire a domestic company, because the company has g.cn domain name.

Low threshold, low activation probability

The domain name industry has few thresholds.

Ziyuhai said that the application of domain name only need a computer to be able to access the Internet and a bank card, through agents can apply online. Different agent registration fee is different, usually a domain name between 50-200 yuan, and then as long as the annual payment of 60 yuan yearly fee can keep the domain name.

"Good domain name registration fee is about hundred yuan, sold to enterprises may be as high as millions." Ziyuhai said that they had been acting for a foreign bank to buy the names of their banks from speculators with a cost of more than 1 million dollars.

Ziyuhai said that they run the name of the network is a domain name transaction intermediary platform, now the above registered domain name has 5 million. "There are souji.com, gupiao.com such a superb grabs, the seller psychological price is more than million." "There are more than 30" million domain names that have been traded from their hands so far, "Ziyuhai said.

By the end of 2009, the domestic registered domain name reached 16.82 million, but the site has only 3.23 million. In other words, the Chichodovan domain name sleeps in "Rice agriculture" the storehouse.