Interests Guide Fortune: Reveal the way the domain name customers get rich

In recent years, sought after by business users, the common domain name resale market is very hot. On the morning of April 22, Lei Jun announced in his mouth "-mi.com, the most expensive domain name in the history of the Internet in China." This is the new domain name for millet launched for internationalization. Li Wanqiang, vice president of millet, disclosed that the transaction price was 3.6 million U.S. dollars. This price domain name suddenly set off a wave of waves on the Internet.

A month later, Luo Yonghao released a hammer cell phone, at the conference he introduced a new domain name t.tt, it is learned that the domain name transaction price of about one million yuan. The news came out, the original holder behind the domain name Showfom also surfaced.

Often active domain name traders, domain name investors hiding behind the screen are often seen as mysterious groups. To outsiders, they simply move their fingers and add a string of numbers to their account.

How did these "rice farmers" get rich by investing in domain names? What kind of people are they? Sina Technology interviewed two farmers with years of experience in domain name investment and opened the story behind their fortunes.

The story behind the hammer domain name: 90 domain name guest

Showfom is a standard 90-year-old "big boy", surprisingly, his domain name research has been 11 years, recently sold to Luo Yonghao's top-level domain name t.tt made him famous.

According to legend, the domain name is priced at 2 million yuan, although he has refused to disclose the specific price. Only after he sold t.tt, had happily said that Lo is not bad money, he is very satisfied with the price. He jokingly said he was going to see the house. He lives in a city in Zhejiang, of course, buy a house without this verification point.

Speaking t.tt this short domain name, which is the country's domain name of Trinidad and Tobago, he was registered in Kunming in April 2012 to visit his first girlfriend. At that time, he was registered as t.tt with an official price of $ 3,000 for three years and was used as his domain name for Babel.

In the old Lo to buy the domain name at a high price, had wanted to bid 100,000 yuan purchase, but he refused. "After all, in my heart, T.TT is invaluable." It was not until the beginning of this year that Vice President Hammer Technologies contacted him and reached a consensus after many negotiations.

Lao Luo held a hammer cell phone conference, announced the opening of t.tt new domain name, he had a fire. But he did not go to celebrate, but drink alone boring wine, trying to drink alcohol worry, get rid of the pain of Acacia.

Because of this domain name and first love girlfriend can not be severed relationship. Later, he often chewed Shen Congwen's "Love Letter," repeating the last sentence: I have traveled many bridges, seen many times the clouds, drank many kinds of wine, but only loved one of the best people of the best age .

In addition to t.tt, he also owns other country names, such as ki.ki, sm.sm and www.re, which are described as "extremely rare" and have the highest price in his network property list For one million yuan. In addition, he also has some personalized domain names such as your.ceo, single digital domain names such as 8.ms, 9.ms, etc., as well as single-letter domain names h.fo and so on.

After engaging in the domain name industry, the 90s have a life trajectory different from that of others. As a senior farmer, Showfom and the domain name are far more than just a hammer.

Multifaceted "beast beast": soak girl and domain name

The autumn of 2003, rainy day, 13-year-old Showfom umbrella walked toward the bank walked. The autumn rain that day, he still remember clearly, and this day also changed his future life trajectory.

He carefully took the mother to give a hundred, ready to go to the bank to a domain name agency remittances. That era, there is no online banking, there is no Alipay, he decided to register his life in the first domain name - NBasky.net.

While most of the children only know "read only sage books" or play games to be unable to extricate themselves, Sentimental Showfom play games such as FIFA and NBA Live series, but he did not stop here, but Study how to build your own website.

The first domain name starts with mimicry. He reference NBAsky game domain nbasky.com, registered nbasky.net, built his own NBA sky website, set information, Raiders and patch download in one, up to a maximum of 5,000 IP traffic a day.

The reason why the establishment of NBA information website, he said he likes basketball, as well as James LeBron. "That year, James just entered the league." He said, "I like his strength, who I like who loved." Later, as the exam approach approaching, he gradually neglected to take care of the site, and ultimately in college To 2,000 yuan shot.

"Initially, my mother could not talk about support, in general, but still give me a hundred dollars, it should be for me to play." This first hard-won start-up capital started Showfom's domain name career.

On high school, he had excellent grades, suddenly felt learning to be useless. Because he earned the first pot of gold, he felt "make money fun, this is not learned in school." Through the NBA Sky website, he earned his first advertising fee in Google Adsense, about 300 US dollars, when the value of 2,400 yuan.

Since then, he has become a real businessman, started a domain name and Liang number business. Some time ago, he often published in the WeChat circle of friends advertised ads, these Liang number from a few thousand dollars to several million dollars.

For his frequent advertising moves, many of his friends or ignore him, or a message that "redress on black." Sina science and technology tried to find out, expressed interest in finding Liang number, he replied: "Are you sure you want this, very expensive ..."

However, as a post-90 businessman, he also likes to "hook" the girl. When he went to college, there are thousands of fans on Twitter, fans give him the nickname "animal beast." He also jokingly said: "Of course, at that time female beast is not famous." And his first girlfriend became girlfriend, is through the wall to achieve Twitter.

Initially, they met in a Twitter-like application that is now "dead-end". Later, she wanted to play Twitter, he taught her over the wall, "taught to teach, she became my female vote." This is exactly the same as the nirvana for boys to help girls repair computers.

Animal beast "hook" the girl's martial arts amazing, he often looked good girls say "you are my", but also love the sweet voice of the girl. He said his tactic is to conquer her language first, and as he spoke, he hummed Na Ying's "conquest."

Domain name fortune: Seemingly speculative knowledge deep

April 22, 2014, Cao found the owner of juqilai.com, bought the domain name for 750 yuan. Two days later, Beijing Yi-Ching (a domain name trading platform) found that he intended to acquire the domain name. Cao was bidding for 120,000. After half a month of negotiations, he eventually closed the transaction at a price of less than 100,000.

Actually, when the domain name agency found him, he knew that the real buyer who acquired the domain name was Alibaba (grabbing information), and so grabbed the original owner to find out the low price before the registration. Old Cao said that this or the project called "get together" may be Ali's upcoming new project, yet unknown to the outside world.

At the end of 2013, Lao Cao registered rongcaibao.com for 40 yuan. Two months later, he received a call for the domain name. Lao Cao asking price of 60,000, the final bid 58,888 yuan each other to buy, but the transaction behind the business for the Beijing Rong Yi letter.

This domain name is the old Cao found Ali will launch last year, Treasury treasure, and because zhaocaibao.com owner asking for thousands of yuan, he would give up this instead registered rongcaibao. He was surprised at the success of this transfer and did not expect to be successfully realized by the east wind of Internet finance.

Last October, Lao Cao also sold onedrivepro.com to Microsoft for $ 10,000. July 31 that year, he saw onedrive.biz was registered, so think of Microsoft's skydrive domain name lawsuit defeat. He will reference skydrivepro.com, according to gourd painting scoop registered onedrivepro.com.

"This is the charm of the domain name, you can know the gossip in advance." Cao proudly said, "certainly not a few people in the country know." From these two transactions, we can see that Lao Cao can estimate valuable domain names in advance, so as to make short-term business and make quick money.

How can he be predicted in advance? Caocao revealed that he has a set of data mining tools that can analyze the potential value of a domain name, or the future direction and direction of a business.

He basically only short-term liquidation business, if a domain name more than a thousand dollars, he felt no need to purchase, might as well explore new valuable domain name. Once registered, less than ten thousand yuan, Cao will not be sold, if a year later found the domain name really worthless, he would rather let it expire.

"We must make good news when we are making quick money, and the information we have seen on the Internet is gone and no profit is made," explained Cao. "I only got a foothold in investing in future products or services. Therefore, we must have a strong Internet sense of smell. The key is to tap the hidden information by ourselves. "

Sounds like Lao Cao really seems to be moving the mouse, typing can keep making some quick money look. However, he said he must carefully select and analyze among thousands of domain names one by one, "which requires a lot of work."

Cao like to chat with friends, easy to talk when it can not hold, and often chatting chatting, the topic of unlimited expansion to go.

After he started his domain name and real estate business, he did not shy away from saying that he now owns several sets of real estate in Changsha. "The house in Changsha is almost saturated, and most Changsha people have several houses," he explained. However, he is still quite dissatisfied with the price of Changsha, "Do you know, a meal will be 2,000."

For real estate, he said that with the concept of domain name, now not so good to do before, "more competition, cash out slow. After the real estate Internet may be on the path to O2O." He believes that after the mobile App can make things are intelligent, home improvement and other services completed.

"Will anyone think you speculation?" Sina science and technology asked. "No, because these things are all I dig. Every day many days and nights, follow up all the scientific and technological information on the Internet." Cao said, "can only say that competition is cruel, what is to give Ready. "

Conclusion

Different stories, same place

Showfom and Cao, a 90 after a 80, different age, the domain name investment style is also very different, but the story has the same place, different flavor.

Although they never met, but the trajectory of life eventually converged on the domain name a little.

From boys to men, they lost or acquired adult rituals, experiencing growing confusion and experiencing the joy or frustration behind every single domain name transaction, each writing his or her own life.

From behind the scenes to the screen, their story staged, which is hard to say is not a microcosm of millions of mysterious domain name guest.

Some people worship their wealthy, wealth rolling like a stone into gold; others say they are speculators, can not be used to those who do the big spenders.

Whether it is stopped to worship or despise worth mentioning, the wheels of life always keep rolling forward. Their story continues, what about yours?

Glossary:

Domain Name is a string of dot-separated names that make up the name of a computer group on the Internet. Domain names and IP addresses can be mapped to each other to facilitate access to the Internet. The homonym for the domain name of corn, through the "Amoy corn" hair domain name investors often self-proclaimed rice farmers.

Domain name is the core of the Internet, but also a rare resource. It is regarded as the intangible assets of an enterprise, which goes up with the value of the enterprise. In addition to the domestic sales of 360 million US dollars mi.com, astronomical domain name is also known to sell for 7.5 million US dollars business.com, and up to 10 million US dollars found.com.