I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 315 Single Letter Domain Names (4367)

"Mr. Fang, thank you for your kindness, but I have only joined DaMi for a year. My mission is to assist Mr. Lei in managing DaMi's investments and the systematization of DaMi's finances. I will not leave until this goal is achieved."

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.

Really not.

How can you poach people like this? Putting aside the question of whether I want to go or not, normally, shouldn’t you first contact me privately, talk it out and reach a consensus, and then take the next step?

Hearing what Zhou Shouzi said, Lei Jun's expression eased a little. He looked at Zhou Shouzi reassuringly, indicating that he trusted him.

Lei Jun then spoke up, "Mr. Fang, I understand your desire to recruit talented people. Although it depends on Shuzi's own opinion, from my personal and Da Mi's perspective, we will definitely not give up."

Lei Jun changed the way he addressed Fang Yu, and the sense of distance immediately widened.

"Shuzi is a very important member of our team. In the past year, he has made great contributions to the construction of the rice ecosystem and completed the investment and acquisition of more than 30 rice ecological chain companies."

"Shuzi is a key figure in our efforts to build the rice ecological chain. 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 the Y search engine you mentioned? Is the next step for Yuzu Technology to enter the search field? This is not easy to do. 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 did not respond to Lei Jun's question, but smiled and brought the topic back to Zhou Shuzi: "I think you don't want to let Brother Shuzi leave. Besides being a key figure in the rice ecological chain, he is also a key figure in the listing of rice, right?"

!!!

Lei Jun and Zhou Shuzi were both smart people. Although they were shocked, they did not show any reaction on the surface.

It's just that Lei Jun inadvertently 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 becoming the mobile phone manufacturer with the largest share of the Da Zhou smartphone market two years ago, countless people have judged that rice is about to go public.

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. He would focus on impacting market share with cost-effectiveness. After becoming the number one in the country, he would start the listing plan as long 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 increase 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 the sales of Xiaomi 5 being 4% ​​lower than that of Xiaomi 20 during the same period last year, more than three months after its release!

Profits are even further away.

The worst thing is that the valuation is falling. Mi 5 has just been released for three months, and the external market valuation has been cut by nearly half from the original 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 the traditional price of 1999 and sell at a minimum of 2499.

AI不支持6+64的最低配置，而是从2699的6G+128G的中端配置开始支持。

大米6AI版的最低售价将来到2999，6G+128G的陶瓷AI版售价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 Xiaomi, whose current highest version is priced at less than 2700 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 its sales are too small, 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 2200, I did not lose money. When my selling price increases, 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 raise 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 big 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 it and 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 YUZI Technology can AI and MIUI be deeply integrated at the fastest speed 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 necessary to avoid causing unrest among employees who hold options within your own company.

Therefore, except for a very small number of 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 one for himself, pinched his fingers, and lit it up: "At the beginning of last year, Dami raised less than 1.2 billion dollars, but just like what you said, Mr. Lei, the ecological chain expanded too fast, and Dami's mobile phone profit margin is low. Even if we increase profits by adjusting the financial report, it is difficult to make up for this part of the hole."

“This begs the question: why does rice attach so much importance to the ecological chain? Would it rather reduce profits and slow down growth in order to open up the entire ecosystem?”

"Dami's IOT is growing very fast. I calculated that based on the current growth rate and the ecological chain companies acquired so far, by the middle of next year, Dami will become the largest consumer-grade IOT platform in the entire network, and the number of connected devices should exceed the total of the next few platforms."

“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 the profits of rice are increased by AI, rice will definitely be IPOed. At present, all these should be to build momentum for the IPO and create more room for imagination."

"Combining Brother Shuzi's career experience and the time he joined Rice, it is not difficult to draw this conclusion."

"Calculating the time, it should be in the first half of the year after next year after the full fiscal year. Now is the time to start preparing some unimportant materials."

Fang Yu exhaled two even puffs 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 the sexual tension is full.

"Mr. Fang is pursuing this so diligently. Is it for the IPO? Is Youzi Technology planning to go public 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 found 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 background, but he didn't expect that the other party's business acumen was also so sharp.

Fang Yu shook his head: "No, I don't plan to IPO." "So the search engine company you are running wants to go public?" Lei Jun asked, "Yes, the business model of search engines is more mature, with clear benchmarks, which makes 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 IPO."

When Lei Jun heard this, his first instinct was that this guy was talking nonsense.

He was not an aggressive person and never engaged in argument. 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 a little, 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 needed. If we don't go public, it will be difficult to have enough funds to build so many data centers."

"I guess you want to build a vertical search engine? For a project like this, it would be a waste of talent to dig him over, right?"

Fang Yu picked up the phone, unlocked it, and opened an app.

"Boss Lei and Brother Shuzi can take a look. The search part is now available. This is an internal preview version. It will be officially launched in two days."

???

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 there only three single-letter domain names Q, Z, and X that can be sold? The rest are in the hands of ICANN, right?"

ICANN is the organization mentioned by Fang Yu when he chatted with Musk last time. Its full name is Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

This organization is nominally a non-profit global organization responsible for domain name distribution 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, 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.

There are 26 single-letter top-level domain names in English, 23 of which are controlled by ICANN, and only three can be circulated.

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 telecommunications operator in Miami 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 tens of millions of dollars, and will not be less than 500 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 open 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 in the hands of Youzi Technology now?

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, so this is considered as a reward." Fang Yu said calmly.

piece of cake?
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 the ICANN management and many domain name registration management companies.

Fang Yu was shocked when he saw a lot of internal information of this organization.

This is the first time I have seen an organization that is as evil-minded 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 750 million dollars. When you go online, enter Y.com and it will automatically resolve to Why.com." Fang Yu sucked his teeth, and it hurts to think about it now. "You can try this search engine."

Lei Jun suppressed his doubts and did not pick up Fang Yu's phone. Instead, 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 can I buy the latest Xiaomi mobile phone' or 'the performance of Xiaomi mobile phone', etc. I can understand it."

Lei Jun ignored the prompts above, 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 mobile phone, opened Google and Qianxun, and started benchmarking.

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 absence of advertisements is understandable since it is not online yet. Once it is commercialized, there will inevitably be advertisements and paid rankings.

But apart from the advertisements, other search results seem to be of higher quality.

If this is the case, it may be the advantage of the search algorithm. It may be that each website has been weighted, and the websites with high weights are more likely to be found. Every search engine has an algorithm in this regard, and it depends on whose algorithm is more accurate.

But the dates and times of these searches...

Lei Jun pondered for a moment and 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.

Let's take a look at the latest time on these pages.

The latest one was five minutes ago.

"Hiss~" Lei Jun took a breath and showed Fang Yu an incredible look for the first time, "Mr. Fang, does your search engine crawl in real time? Do you have enough bandwidth, storage and computing power?"

(End of this chapter)