Domain name Investor Hao: A domain name does not earn thousand yuan even if compensate

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Originally for it practitioners based on the vision of the site to build personalized name of the customer to play 10 years not enough

Look at the news, browse the website, through the karmic relationship to consult friends, to see the principal investment, without clerical, no colleagues ... For the 33-Year-old Hao, that's all he's done.

Instead of stock or house, he fired the domain name (the network address of a business or agency on the Internet). It has been 10 years since he joined in this line.

The domain name is like the cultural relic, the investment Shikun sees the personal vision, Hao this to define for own investment goods. Some domain name backlog in the individual hand, has been sold not to drop. Some domain names but the market bullish, trading between dozens of times times or even hundredfold.

"I am only a small and medium sized investor at best. "After 10 years of ups and downs, Hao is very calm, slowly talking about his career journey."

Beginning with interest to register names as domain names

11 years ago, Hao, a year of graduation, was an IT practitioner. Every day with the network to deal with him, more than anyone to contact the domain name. At that time, he earns 3000 yuan a month, which is a high income.

With his own interest, he registered the first domain name in his life, named after his personal name "Haopeng.com". "1000 dollars can buy two years." "He took out one-third of his salary for the first time to complete a small dream of his life."

At the time, he had no idea that it was a sustainable and lucrative business, and he just thought it would be nice to name a website.

However, at the end of the same year, "business.com" the domain name in the United States to deal with 7.5 million U.S. dollars, became a domain name transaction history of a yarn. Others say that investors spent 600,000 of dollars a few years ago buying the domain names of china.com, hongkong.com and taiwan.com.

These stories have stimulated some people to plunge into the industry that is not yet in China, and prescient people have started betting large sums of money to register domain names. In the provinces and counties of China, the items in daily life, as well as the digital English, are registered on a large scale.

Among these people are hao. 2000, the price of the domain name has been used from about 1000 yuan for two years, down to fifty or sixty yuan to use one year.

So he began to set aside some money every month for the monthly salary, registering the domain name. Many of them are personal hobbies, and he wants to run these websites for himself in the future.

Profit first bucket of gold earned nearly a hundredfold

In early 2001, Hao sold his life's first domain name: gaofeng.com. That is the first time he knew, originally bought the domain name really can make money.

Fifty or sixty Yuan investment, and sold 5000 yuan, nearly a hundredfold profits, let Hao tasted the sweetness.

So, he started every month from 3000 yuan salary to draw out 1000 to 2000 yuan registered domain name, products, commonly used words, everyday terms of the two-syllable word became his investment domain name main spelling source, such as "lixiang.com" (ideal), "jixiang.com" (auspicious) and so on.

But soon, he found, not all domain names can sell fast and good, this is a long-term investment, investors must be able to lower heart, because the domain name this thing is completely different from the beholder, others do not have to buy this domain name.

This year, more and more network new words, such as "Cottage" the word domain name, buyers should hold a long time, never too hot.

As the word has been given new meaning in recent years, the number of clicks on this domain has increased.

For these words, Hao has its own mode of judgment. Hao that making such investments would have to find a better time to find the right price to sell, relatively more troublesome. He doesn't want to invest in such domain names.

From 2001 to 2005, the world ushered in a downturn in the Internet. Hao Frankly, in those years, can barely make ends meet, don't mention make money.

"Those who hold on to it will be able to make it back through the years." But then, a lot of people in the industry gave up. He persisted, as during this period, one thing gave him hope.

Around 2004, a young man came to him to buy a domain name, only that they are ordinary graduates, a few friends to do the company, want to apply for "tianji.com" this domain name. Hao read its entrepreneurial hardships, and did not wild speculations, thousands of yuan will be the domain name. A few months later, waiting for Hao to login to the site only to find that the person who bought the site is Sina's former vice president.

"I was encouraged at a draught, which shows that my vision has been endorsed by celebrities in the IT world." "he said.

Hao the mentality, only this industry as their own sideline investment. He has a serious job, always believe his vision, has been adhering to the domain name of about 20,000 a year, but has not been eager to resell.

As the money hit more and more, the friends around him thought he was a weirdo and did not understand his behavior, but to his delight, his wife has always respected his hobbies and encouraged him.

The transition reluctantly "capital preservation" encounter the internet downturn

Cheer up quit work full time with the domain name

2005 is a landmark year for the internet industry. Baidu Company, Shanda Company listed in the United States, in China's sluggish internet ushered in the Golden Age, the domain name market was immediately driven.

From then on, Hao basically can earn 200,000 to 300,000 yuan each year. 2007, optimistic about the industry Hao choose to resign from the original unit, is committed to do domain name investment at home.

Sometimes, only a domain name can bring him six-digit income, such as "shipin.com" (food) and "weixiu.com" (maintenance), he even gave himself that if the net income of a domain can not reach four digits, then his investment is failed.

Speaking of their own investment in the process of the most regrettable domain name, than the beginning of this year's investment "feichengwurao.com" (not sincere do not disturb), the same period, Hao invested a series of wedding sites to build words, including happy knot marriage, eternal and so on. Coincidentally, the film "Non-interference" as a surreal, so that the domain name fire. Because of the fear of the word's popularity is only a while, so take advantage of the early year of the film's waste heat, Hao will be the domain name shot, the price is only thousands of yuan.

Not long ago, a set of dating program "not sincere don't disturb" red all over the country. Immediately thereafter, Feng Xiaogang to make "Non-interference" sequel, will be released immediately.

"If the domain name is now sold, six digits must be there." "Hao some regrets his impatience, but also have to admit that even if the next encounter similar situation, this network of popular words to meet the domain name, he will still be shot as soon as possible. Because he can not predict, after this "village", the next "shop" where.

Tangle evasion registration hate being called "Corn worm"

In the domain name industry for decades, Hao's heart is not not experienced entanglements.

In recent years, a number of events, known as preemption, have occurred frequently, such as registering names of well-known figures as domain names, and selling them to brokerage firms or themselves at high prices, with a view to profiteering.

This makes Hao and his peers repeatedly questioned.

"In fact, the line between first note first and the registration is very vague." "Some people can use the current hot spots, fresh words and popular wind to determine the next fire domain name, this is first-come first-served." However, some new entrants will take the risk of taking risks, walking on the edge of law and morality, and earning money by registering names of celebrities.

However, such people usually suffer from social public opinion and moral sense of pressure, so even if the market competition is fierce, Hao has always been very evasive "rush" such things. "I don't like to hear people call us ' corn bugs ', I'm conflicted. ”

In addition, the change in policy also has an impact on the industry, for example, December 2009, the individual can no longer register "CN domain Name", some rely on registration of this domain name to make money, can only be transferred to other domain names, re-examine. And some people have a "CN domain Name" site, you can make a big profit, sold to two-level domain name investors.

Fortunately Hao has been investing in "COM domain name", very little attention to "CN domain Name", therefore, he did not have too much sadness and joy.

He hoped that we can see the domain name of the sale and purchase of stocks, property as normal, so that their investors such as light.

The prospect of increased competition still favors the industry

As industry competition intensifies, domain name investors have expanded from the original dozens of to thousands of or more teams. At present, we can think of the two-syllable, three-syllable word spelling of the domain name is basically registered. In the future, the newly registered domain name will only become more and more long, even more and more difficult to remember.

Hao's way of working has also undergone some changes, he began to pay attention to the personal possession of the relatively good domain name, if there is investment value and rising space, he will also buy from the hands of others. At the same time, he is also concerned about a number of newly developed markets, such as the five syllable word "mobile phone charger", "electric bicycle" and so on.

Now, the new words on the network, entertainment programs or movie lines, but also he registered domain name to refer to the object.

Hao told reporters that according to the current market, he still felt that the market is not saturated, the entire domain name investment industry in China is still in the ascendant. "I am holding the idea of long-term investment." In the end, Hao still firm this sentence.

Face-to-face or remote trading. Occasionally through intermediary agencies to contact.

Advertise on the personal official website.

Sign up for new words, or buy some relatively good domain names from others.

Look at the meaning of the domain name, length, there is no possibility to carry out e-commerce.

People introduction

Name: Hao

Age: 33 years old

Once occupation: it practitioner

Fried Guest Experience: 10

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