After thinking for a while, Zhou Xuan replied in the email: "This domain name can be sold, but the amount is $1 million." ”

After the email was sent, Zhou Xuan could think of the expressions of the employees of the whooshing fox when they saw the email. Zhou Xuan estimated that the person who held the domain name must have thought that the person who held the domain name was crazy, and he dared to ask for a million US dollars.

You must know that Zhang Chaoyang, the founder of Whooshing Fox, went to the United States for a few months to raise $2.2 million for the company. The domain name holder is asking for $2 million, how not to die!

Of course, Zhou Xuan opened his mouth widely, and he knew that it was impossible for the fox side to agree. $1 million in 1998 is not a small amount, and Whoosh Fox must not be able to afford it. And they also think that just a domain name is definitely not worth so much money.

However, in Zhou Xuan's eyes, the important thing is not $1 million, what he wants to get is a stake in the fox. By the time Fox went public in 2000, even a 10 percent stake was worth $40 or 50 million. Then sell it before the Internet winter, so that you can get a large amount of start-up capital, so that Zhou Xuan can invest in other projects.

Before the dot-com bubble in 2000, the three major portals were the most famous. They have all been listed in Lastaq and have all experienced the glory of the early days of the Internet. However, with the advent of the dot-com bubble, the value of stocks fell to the bottom, leaving some investors with heavy losses. But Zhou Xuan has no worries about this, he knows the process of history, so he can maximize his own interests.

Imperial capital, Whoosh Fox Company.

When the employees below opened Zhou Xuan's email and saw that Zhou Xuan was asking for $1 million, they almost opened their mouths to scold, this is a neurotic.

But a neurotic knows how to invest in domain names?

The answer was definitely no, so when the employee wanted to ignore Zhou Xuan just now, he found that they had no other choice, because the other three domain names// were all registered by a person named Xuanzi.

Do you use shouhu?

Damn, don't be kidding, if this employee dares to report this proposal, Zhang Chaoyang will definitely scold him for being a pig's brain?

The fox is gone, how can I search it?

Or do you want to change your name?

But Whoosh Fox has been established for more than half a year, hehe, is it possible to change its name now?

"Whoosh" is not "whoosh", right?

Thinking of the task assigned to him by the leader, 100,000 yuan must take down this domain name, the employee was speechless for a while. Why did xuanzi register the domain name in advance? TM registered sohu and souhu at once, and even the ones with com and cn were all round.

You know, in January, "Whoosh" had just changed its name to "Whoosh Fox" for two months, and it was still using the domain name of Sohoo.

Do you want to swish fox to register the rest of the domain name extensions? Don't laugh, the domain name with the com suffix is the mainstream in these years, and it is not the com suffix that is embarrassed to go public in the future.

The employee thought about Zhou Xuan's lion and opened his mouth, but he had to complete the task assigned by the boss. So I thought about it for a long time and didn't come up with a solution, and finally had to reply:

"I'm sorry, do you know how much $1 million is? You must know that the average salary in the imperial capital is less than 800 yuan, and you actually ask for $1 million. To be honest, this price is too high, and it is impossible for the company to give it.

If you are willing, the company is willing to pay $100,000 to acquire your domain name. ”

Zhou Xuan received a reply email from the whoosh fox at noon. Seeing the reply, Zhou Xuan couldn't help laughing, and as expected, the swishing fox rejected the original offer.

This Zhou Xuan was also expected, although Whoosh Fox received $2.2 million in its second round of funding in April this year. But now four months later, I guess there is less than $2 million left.

While the sohu domain name is important, no company will take half of the money to acquire it. However, Zhou Xuan believes that 100,000 yuan is definitely not their highest price, and this matter can still be discussed.

In August, Whoosh Fox will change its previous strategy of doing full retrieval and dedicate half of its strength to content and portals. Because the concept of web portals has become popular in the United States, Whoosh Fox can't help but follow, otherwise how to play the three major portals in the world.

And now the domain name of the swishing fox is completely inconsistent with the image of the swishing fox company, and it must be replaced with a domain name that fits the company. Otherwise, the domain name will not match, and it will not be easy to read, and users will be lost.

Think about the rapid development of JD and VIP after changing the corresponding domain names in the previous life, and you can know how big the impact of a good domain name is.

Thinking of the urgency of the need for a domain name, Zhou Xuan replied: "100,000 yuan is too low, I can't agree." You need to know that the domain name sohu is completely suitable for your company's products, and it is the most suitable domain name for Whoosh Fox. And I also have souhu this spelling domain name gift, 100,000 is too low. If your company can contribute $500,000 or trade with shares, it will be acceptable to me. You can call me on 13 *********, welcome to call. ”

In the afternoon, the employee saw Zhou Xuan's reply and couldn't help but curse.

"I still want shares, it's just ......"

Then, of course, the employee made a phone call to Zhou Xuan and said very politely that $500,000 and shares would definitely be impossible. However, he has already reported to the supervisor and raised the price to 150,000 yuan. I hope Zhou Xuan can agree to this offer, after all, all this money can buy a house in the imperial capital, or within the second ring road.

Of course, it was impossible for Zhou Xuan to agree, and he clearly refused on the phone. However, he didn't say that he was dead, he just said that the price was negotiable, but it was definitely not such a low price as 150,000.

Seeing Zhou Xuan hang up the phone, the employee knew that he couldn't talk about it, so he had to report the situation. When the director heard the news, he also frowned, and he also felt that Zhou Xuan was really a lion.

Therefore, this matter was reported to Zhang Chaoyang, and it was up to the boss.

In the office, Zhang Chaoyang, who was energetic and a little flamboyant, heard the news of the failure of the domain name purchase, and regretted it for a while. I regret that I didn't register this domain earlier at the beginning of the year, and you must know that at the end of last year, Whoosh Fox had already appeared. And at that time, I changed "whoosh" to "whoosh", but forgot to preemptively register sohu's domain name.

"What a miscalculation, I can't imagine that someone would register a domain name to invest right now. And he also aimed at his own swishing fox, so that his sohu net is really not up now. Zhang Chaoyang frowned, thinking about the next way.

It's not that Zhang Chaoyang doesn't know the potential and value of a good domain name, but this whooper fox is obviously reflected because of his company's value, and the squatter is simply a lion's mouth.

"sohu, swishing fox......" Zhang Chaoyang read it several times, and felt more and more in his heart that this domain name was prepared for swishing fox. If you change to another domain name, can Whoosh Fox still develop well?

Zhang Chaoyang opened the email that his subordinates had just forwarded to him, and then looked at Zhou Xuan's reply.

"First it's $1 million, then $500,000 or shares. Isn't it...... Share. Zhang Chaoyang seemed to see Zhou Xuan's ultimate goal, and suddenly made up his mind in his heart.

Pick up the phone and start dialing the phone number on the mail.