Chapter 315 Single-Letter Domain Names (4367)
"Mr. Fang, thank you for your kindness, but I've only been at DaMi for a year. My mission is to assist Mr. Lei in managing DaMi's investments and systematizing its finances. I won't leave until I achieve this goal."
Zhou Shuzi reacted very quickly. At this time, he certainly couldn't wait for Lei Jun to speak. Any hesitation would make Lei Jun think that he had already communicated with Fang Yu in advance.
The problem is, there isn't one.
Really not.
How can you poach people like that? Putting aside the question of whether I wanted to go or not, shouldn't they have first contacted me privately, reached a consensus, and then taken the next step?
Hearing Zhou Shouzi say this, Lei Jun's expression eased slightly. He looked at Zhou Shouzi reassuringly, indicating that he trusted him.
Lei Jun then spoke up, "Mr. Fang, I understand your eagerness to recruit talented individuals. Although it depends on Shuzi's own wishes, from my perspective and that of Da Mi, I will definitely not give up."
Lei Jun changed the way he addressed Fang Yu, and the sense of distance immediately widened.
"Shu Zi is a very important member of our team. This year, he has made great contributions to the construction of the rice ecosystem and completed the investment and acquisition of more than 30 rice ecosystem chain companies."
"Shuzi is a key figure in our efforts to build a rice ecosystem. We have known each other for many years and have a deep understanding of each other. For both public and private reasons, I don't want him to leave the rice industry. Therefore, please forgive me."
"By the way, what is this Y search engine you're talking about? Is the next step for Yuzu Technology to enter the search field? That's not going to be easy. It's an oligopoly, and the competition is fierce."
After Lei Jun expressed his opinion, he took the initiative to change the subject.
Fang Yu didn't respond to Lei Jun's follow-up question. Instead, he smiled and brought the topic back to Zhou Shuzi: "I assume you don't want to let Brother Shuzi leave. Besides being a key figure in the rice ecosystem, he's also a key figure in rice's market launch, right?"
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Lei Jun and Zhou Shuzi were both smart people. Although they were shocked in their hearts, they did not show any reaction on the surface.
However, Lei Jun accidentally made eye contact with Zhou Shouzi. Zhou Shouzi looked into Lei Jun's eyes and shook his head slightly, indicating that he didn't know how Fang Yu knew it.
Ever since it became the mobile phone manufacturer with the largest share of the Da Zhou smartphone market two years ago, countless people have predicted that rice is about to go on the market.
But every time the media or people in the industry asked Lei Jun this question, Lei Jun would evade the question by saying that he did not want to go public in the short term and had no plans to go public in the next five years.
But in fact, Lei Jun had already made plans. He would not seek to go public in the initial stage, but would focus on relying on cost-effectiveness to impact market share. After becoming the number one in the country, he would initiate the listing plan as soon as the rice started to make a profit!
At this time, only with the first place in domestic market share and the expectation of future profit growth can we get the best issue price!
Currently, Xiaomi is facing internal and external troubles. Supply chain shortages and insufficient product strength have resulted in Xiaomi 5's sales being 20% lower than Xiaomi 4's sales during the same period last year, more than three months after its release!
Profitability is even further away.
The worst thing is that the valuation is dropping right now. Mi 5 has just been released for three months, and the external market valuation has been cut by nearly half of the original 45 billion. If there is no good news in the future, the valuation will definitely drop further.
This is also the reason why the launch of Mi 6 this time must break through the traditional 1999 and sell at a minimum of 2499.
AI does not support the minimum configuration of 6+64, but supports it starting from the mid-range configuration of 6G+128G at 2699.
The lowest price of the Mi 6 AI version will be 2999, and the 6G+128G ceramic AI version will be priced at 3499.
The highest-end Bright Silver Exploration AI version will be priced at 4799!
And there will be no regular version of the Bright Silver Explorer Edition.
There is no doubt that this is a leap in price for Rice, whose current highest version is priced at less than 2,700 yuan!
You should know that the only three brands on the market that can sell mobile phones at this price and in large quantities are Fruit, Zhouwei, and Sanmusang.
Oh, you can also add Google's Nexus, but it sells too few products, so it can be classified as others together with brands like Sony and Sharp.
If Xiaomi can break into this price range, it means that it will be the real fourth force in the mobile phone market!
It doesn’t matter how much money you can make, but as long as you can sell it and get a good market response, it will give the capital market unlimited imagination.
Just imagine, with an average selling price of 2,200, I didn’t lose money. When my selling price is raised, with my supply chain management capabilities, what will be the profit margin of my rice?
All I need to do is prove that I have the ability and potential to increase the selling price!
This is why Dami must cooperate with Youzi Technology.
After Youzi Technology open-sourced JUZI1.99, all mobile phone companies can build their own AI systems based on this large model, but this does not mean much to Xiaomi.
When everyone has it, the rice brand will still be at the low end. Only when I have something that others don’t, and others also have it but I am the best, can I achieve a leapfrog improvement in the brand.
Only with the deep involvement of Youzi Technology can AI and MIUI be deeply integrated as quickly as possible to create a true AI system, rather than simply adding an AI voice assistant or search dialog box and calling it an AI phone.
All of these are prepared for the IPO that Dami is planning!
And this news should be top secret!
Before any company goes public, there is a considerable period of confidentiality to avoid premature exposure that could lead to valuation fluctuations or reactions from competitors.
It is also important to avoid causing unrest among employees who hold options within your own company.
Therefore, except for a very few people, few people knew about this plan.
How did Fang Yu know?
"This is just my own speculation." Fang Yu took out a box of lottery tickets and handed one to Lei Jun.
Lei Jun hesitated for a moment, then took it and lit it.
Fang Yu took a cigarette for himself, pinched it between his fingers, and lit it. "At the beginning of last year, DaMi raised less than 1.2 billion dollars. But just like what you said, Mr. Lei, the ecosystem has expanded too quickly, and DaMi's mobile phone profit margins are low. Even if we increase profits by adjusting the financial statements, it will be difficult to make up for this part of the gap."
"This begs the question: why is the rice industry so focused on its ecosystem? Would it even reduce profits and slow growth in order to open up the entire ecosystem?"
"Dami's IoT is growing very rapidly. I've calculated that based on the current growth rate and the ecosystem companies we've acquired so far, by the middle of next year, Dami will become the largest consumer-grade IoT platform on the Internet, with more connected devices than the next few platforms combined."
“But there’s still this problem: it’s not profitable.”
"Also, the Mi 5 launched a few months ago seems to have hit a sales bottleneck, right?"
"So, I think by the end of next year at the latest, after AI has boosted rice profits, the rice industry will definitely go public. Currently, all this is probably building momentum for the IPO and creating more room for imagination."
"Combining Brother Shuzi's career history and the time he joined Rice, it's not difficult to draw this conclusion."
"Calculating the time, it should be after the end of the fiscal year next year, in the first half of the year after next. Now is the time to start preparing some unimportant materials."
Fang Yu exhaled two even clouds of smoke from his nose, picked up the hot mocha on the table, took a sip, and licked his lips.
Just with this posture, men can feel that the sexual tension is full.
"Mr. Fang is so persistent in pursuing Shuzi. Is it because of the IPO? Is Youzi Technology planning to list on the Maigu Stock Exchange?"
Lei Jun flicked the ash off his cigarette and looked around. Although the people nearby were looking at his table curiously and excitedly, they were all quite far away and probably couldn't hear what he said.
He discovered that although he had previously taken this young man in his early twenties very seriously and regarded him as the most promising technical genius today, he actually still underestimated him.
Originally, he only valued the other party's technical ability and a little bit of background, but he didn't expect that the other party's business acumen was also so sharp.
Fang Yu shook his head: "No, I'm not planning an IPO."
"So, this search engine company you're building is planning an IPO?" Lei Jun pressed. "Yes, the search engine business model is more mature, with clear benchmarks, making it easier for the capital market to benchmark."
Fang Yu shook his head again: "No, to be precise, most of the future businesses under Youzi Technology will not be IPOs."
When Lei Jun heard this, his first instinct was that this guy was talking nonsense.
He was not an aggressive person and never talked much. When he heard Fang Yu say that, he just smiled.
"If that's the case, I won't have to worry about you poaching my employees." Lei Jun relaxed slightly, leaned back in his chair, and joked.
"For a search engine, the wider the index coverage and the higher the real-time crawling frequency, the more storage and computing resources are required. Without going public, it would be difficult to have enough funds to build so many data centers."
"I'm guessing you're going to develop a vertical search engine? For a project like this, digging up this person would be a waste of talent, right?"
Fang Yu picked up the phone, unlocked it, and opened an app.
"Boss Lei and Brother Shuzi, please take a look. The search function is now available. This is an internal preview version and will be officially launched in two days."
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Y.com?
When Lei Jun saw the domain name, all the hairs on his body stood up.
"You got the single-letter domain name Y?" Lei Jun looked up in disbelief. "Aren't Q, Z, and X the only three single-letter domain names for sale? Aren't the rest in ICANN's hands?"
ICANN is the organization mentioned by Fang Yu when he chatted with Musk last time. Its full name is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
This organization is nominally a non-profit global organization responsible for the distribution of domain names and the actual technical maintenance of the DNS root zone registry.
Not only is the global domain name management under the responsibility of this organization, but the legendary 13 root servers are also managed by this organization.
But in fact, this agency is not a global organization at all. They are jointly governed by the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Information.
Many countries have protested and demanded that ICANN be directly managed by the UN General Assembly, but it is completely useless.
Of the 26 single-letter top-level domain names in English, 23 are controlled by ICANN and only three are available for circulation.
The domain name x used to belong to Musk, who bought it for 10,000 dollars in the 1990s. It still belongs to PayPal.
The Z domain name originally belonged to Japan, which used it as the official website of its top-of-the-line Z series sports cars. Later, the Z series was discontinued, and the Z domain name was sold to a Japanese Internet company two years ago.
The q domain name is owned by a Miami-based telecom operator called Qwest.
Basically, among these three domain names, only the q domain name and the x domain name can be purchased, because these two domain names are essentially not activated and are idle, but they basically cost around tens of millions of dollars, and will not be less than 5 million dollars.
The key is that the other party still has to sell, and there is a high probability that they will make equity demands.
Not to mention the Y domain name which is not available for purchase at all!
The Y domain name is different from single-letter domain names such as q and z. This domain name itself has the homonym of "why", making it the best partner for search engines.
If this domain name is available for purchase, even if it costs 15 million dollars, search engine companies such as Google will rush to buy it.
How come this domain name is now in the hands of Youzi Technology?
Although, apart from hao123, no website has become popular because of its domain name, rare assets are still rare assets, and being able to obtain them speaks volumes.
"I helped ICANN solve some minor problems before, and this is my reward." Fang Yu said calmly.
Small problem?
Just a small question, can these foreigners give you the Y domain name?
Fang Yu curled his lips in his heart. Of course, it was just a small issue of interest exchanges between ICANN management and many domain name registration management companies.
Fang Yu was shocked when he saw the many internal information of this organization.
This is the first time I have seen an organization that is as unscrupulous as the unofficial organizations that manage football in some countries.
It's easy to imagine that this organization only has power but no obligations. Basically no one can manage them. It would be a miracle if there is no chaos inside.
There is really no psychological pressure in cheating them.
Lei Jun and Zhou Shuzi looked at each other, and saw shock in each other's eyes.
Zhou Shuzi's expression became unconsciously solemn.
"I also bought the why domain name for 7.5 million Malaysian dollars. When you go online, just type in Y.com and it will automatically resolve to Why.com." Fang Yu sucked his teeth, feeling a pain in his throat just thinking about it now. "You can try this search engine."
Lei Jun suppressed his doubts and did not pick up Fang Yu's phone. He put it on the table and typed the words "Dami Phone" in the dialog box.
There was almost no waiting time before lines of search information popped up on the screen.
There is also a line of prompts at the top, "You can tell me the specific information you want to search for, such as 'where to buy the latest Xiaomi mobile phone' or 'the performance of Xiaomi mobile phone', etc. I can understand them all."
Lei Jun ignored the above prompts, probably combining some of the functions of the Orange Big Model, and concentrated on looking at the search results.
Dami official website, Qianxun Encyclopedia, Dami Mall, Taomao, JD.com, Xiaopo Station, Do You Know?
Then he took out his Xiaomi phone, opened Google and Qianxun, and started comparing.
It doesn’t matter if they don’t match the benchmark. After this comparison, Lei Jun and Zhou Shuzi actually discovered something.
It seems... the results from searching for Y are more practical?
The lack of advertisements is understandable, after all, it has not been launched yet. Once it is commercialized online, there will inevitably be advertisements and bidding rankings.
But apart from the advertisements, the results from other searches seem to be of higher quality.
If this is the case, it could be due to the search algorithm's advantages. It could be that each website is weighted, so websites with higher weights are more likely to be found. Every search engine has its own algorithm for this, and it's just a matter of seeing whose algorithm is more accurate.
But the dates and times of these searches...
Lei Jun pondered for a moment and then typed in "Zhou Wei Yu Dazui".
The first one is "Why is Yu Chengdong called Yu Dazui?"
Below is Yu Dazui’s encyclopedia and various web pages.
Now look at the latest date on these pages.
The latest one was five minutes ago.
"Hiss!" Lei Jun gasped, and for the first time, he gave Fang Yu a look of disbelief. "Mr. Fang, does your search engine crawl data in real time? Do you have enough bandwidth, storage, and computing power?"
(End of this chapter)
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