In Henry's view, Netscape is indeed a little early. In the previous life, on the day Netscape was listed, its market value had reached $7.1 billion, and it exceeded $20 billion at the end of that year. The current market value of Netscape is only more than 500 million, relatively speaking, some losses. But in order to obtain a development fund, Henry had to do it. Making a trade-off between the future and the present, Henry thinks more about the future!

A small loss now, a big profit in the future!

After obtaining 100 million funds, Henry decided to reorganize the Nicholas Bookstore and establish the Nicholas Group of Companies, which has the Nicholas website, the IMDB website and the listed subsidiary Netscape. In addition to selling books, Nicholas's main business will gradually add new products, and the first attempt is videotapes. With the influence of Nicholas and the IMDB website, it is possible to cooperate with film companies!

The establishment of the IMDB website is a bureau under Henry, and it is also the origin of why Henry built a movie website based on it. Nicholas can't just sell books, it's going to grow, it's going to sell more, it's going to be the biggest integrated online retailer!

In addition, Nicholas Group will set up a global online company to launch online services that will provide e-mail, web browsing, and entertainment news.

Is AOL very awesome? Brother Global Online!!

In terms of online browsing, with the Netscape browser, the global online occupies an innate advantage.

The &nbDB website will also be of great help to the global online network.

Now the only thing that's bad is email. In October 1969, the world's first e-mail appeared. But the current email is very scummy, and Henry is very unaccustomed to using it. The reason why it is called scum is because it is not a graphical interface, which is unbearable, and this kind of email can only be used on the networked computer at home or at work, which is equivalent to the email and the computer are bound!

It's so inhuman, it's too unreasonable!!

Gotta change!

Henry gathered his men and emphasized two demands.

First, the email must be a graphical interface, and the interface must be simple and simple.

Second, users can manage their accounts and send emails through Netscape Explorer.

Henry didn't want to make emails bells and whistles, with so many features. There aren't many netizens yet, so we have to give them the simplest and most needed things to use. Because the best email must not be the one with the most features, but the most appropriate one!!

In October, Nicholas Group registered a subsidiary, Global Online, and registered a domain name.

The management of the domain name belongs to the U.S. government. In 1993, when workSolutions (NSI) signed a contract with the U.S. government to acquire the exclusive rights to register three international top-level domain names for .、.、., it seemed that he could do the same. With this exclusive agency, NSI can charge a registration fee of $100 per domain name per year, and after two years, it will have to charge a management fee of $50 per year, and NSI will make a lot of money. Think about how many domain names there will be on the Internet in the future, I'm afraid it's millions, you can earn hundreds of millions of dollars by charging a registration fee, and then you have to charge management fees every year.

Without saying a word, Henry sent people to negotiate with the relevant departments of the government.

The negotiations took the shortest, and the shortest they were simply shocking.

Ten minutes!

It only took 10 minutes!

Henry sent his own legal counsel, Lawyer Will, to talk. After Will went, he immediately explained his intentions, and the U.S. government said that it could be considered, and then went on to talk about the issue of exclusive agency fees, and the U.S. government said that the exclusive agency would cost 100,000 for 5 years, 1 million for 10 years, and 10 million for 20 years. It seems that the U.S. government also knows the importance of domain names.

Before Will came, he had been authorized by Henry, one million in 5 years, ten million in 10 years, and 100 million in 20 years, but he didn't expect the conditions given by the U.S. government to be much lower than the price Henry thought!

For the sake of the customer, Will cut the price, but the U.S. government resolutely refused to budge. In desperation, Will had no choice but to negotiate this condition with the U.S. government.

When Henry heard the news, he was secretly overjoyed and hurriedly urged the U.S. government to sign the contract.

A week later, Henry took Lawyer Will to sign a contract with the U.S. government. Henry naturally signed an exclusive agency for 20 years.

This cannot be blamed on the low vision of the US government, but the total number of domain names is less than 1,000 now, and it is difficult to see profit prospects.

Henry created a company called the "Domain Name Management Company" for this purpose, and then recruited two or three people to cope with the early development. After the establishment of the domain name management company, Henry inevitably had a little caution in his heart, that is, to register the domain names of the world's top 500 companies, and then wait for them to buy them back from his own hands!

The thought that in the future, a top-level domain could be auctioned for tens of millions of dollars made Henry a little impulsive.

Henry has now created a domain name management company, and he doesn't need money to register his own domain names, and he doesn't have to pay management fees......

Alas, it's a pity, this is the United States, the crime of monopoly is too great, and if you are not careful, you will probably be invited to tea.

Henry finally held back.

In fact, the establishment of a domain name management company can not only bring Henry huge benefits, but also monitor the development of the global Internet! Henry knows exactly how many domain names are registered and how many websites are established in the world, and it will play a huge role in his future layout!

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Geely Hurt began to actively reach out to major Hollywood studios to discuss online sales of videotapes. Film companies can have an additional sales channel, and they are naturally happy to see it. And because of the elimination of the middleman, even if the website sells cheaply, the major film companies actually make more money!

Geely Hurt signed a long-term contract with them, which stipulated that Nicholas would receive exclusive rights to the six major film companies' film tape networks, and that Nicholas would receive a 1% rebate on each transaction, and Nicholas would be obliged to promote and promote the studio's videotapes.

Don't look at the simple agreement, but in fact, the film company purely sits and collects money, and the Nicholas website has to build a warehouse and logistics system, and does a lot more than the film company.

In November, the Nicholas website was officially revamped with the launch of a film videotape. Combined with data from the IMDB website, each film tape has detailed descriptions and pictures, as well as IMDB ratings and reviews. And on the IMDB website, a link to Nicholas' website is given below each book.

Netscape Browser has also started popping up, highly recommending online shopping for movies and videotapes!

Under the repeated bombardment, the performance of Nicholas's website became popular.

The sales of film and video tapes in a week were very impressive, reaching more than 20,000. Sales of books also skyrocketed, with 4,000 copies sold in a week.

Taking advantage of this fire, the Nicholas website has more than 10,000 registered users! This is a very staggering number in 1987, when there were not many Internet users. (Vote...... ）

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