According to the history of the Internet, in 1983, Paul Mokapachos invented the DNS domain name resolution technology. In 1985, domain names marked the dawn of the era of domain names. However, domain name registration has historically been an unpopular project.

It wasn't until the 90s that the advent of hypertext technology, the World Wide Web, and the browser made domain name registrations a big hit. Subsequently, the U.S. government outsourced domain name registration services to private domain name registrars.

NSI, the first company to register top-level domains, began charging domain name registered users $100 per domain name starting in '94, and after that, charging a $50 per day administration fee. Even so, it still can't stop the popularity of domain names, and in history, only 7,000 domain names have been registered in the world in 93 years. However, from '94, domain name registrations exploded. By '98, 1.2 million domain names had been registered worldwide, and NSI charged 60 million domain name registration fees that year, and by '99, its corporate profit exceeded $200 million. At a time when most Internet companies were still burning money, domain name registration companies, as companies that sold shovels, took the lead in making huge profits.

It is precisely because the domain name registration project is so lucrative that at the end of the 90s, the U.S. government canceled the qualification of NSI as the exclusive agent of domain name registration, and since 2000, more companies have begun to work together to provide customers with domain name registration services.

After that, in addition to the Internet entrepreneurs who normally registered domain names, there were also a large number of gold diggers, who hoarded some valuable domain names to sell by registering domain names in batches. With the continuous development of the Internet industry, many of these domain name speculators have also made amazing profits.

However, the world's domain name registration boom is destined to be hyped earlier than in history.

On September 15, 1987, top-level domains, websites that were covered by the global media, quickly began to become a hot topic.

Of course, there are not many Internet users in the world at present, and there are only about a million people connected to the Internet.

However, when the domain name of Pangea Encyclopedia was announced, countless users began to visit the site.

At the same time, Pangu Browser has a software that is about 1MB in size and also provides a free download link.

On September 15, Pangea Encyclopedia had more than 300 PV views, and at the same time, 17 entries were registered.

On September 16, the number of visits to Pangu Encyclopedia increased to 6,000 PV, and the number of entries exceeded 100.

On September 17, perhaps the news spread more widely, so the IP visits of the website once exceeded 10,000, and the number of views exceeded 300,000. The number of entries skyrocketed to 1,000.

For a long time after that, the number of entries in Pangea Encyclopedia increased, showing a rapid increase of more than 100 entries added every day.

Driven by Pangea Encyclopedia, the passion for sharing knowledge and contributing knowledge began to emerge on the Internet all over the world.

Of course, there are also many people who like to add private goods to the entry, and some people even deliberately distort the encyclopedia content in the entry.

However, after such low-quality netizens are discovered, they will permanently lose their qualifications for compiling and modifying encyclopedia entries.

At the same time, Pangu Encyclopedia does not provide material incentives for netizens who register entries. However, the writers have an empirical value system, from elementary school students, middle school students, college students, masters, doctors, scholars to authoritative scholars...... These levels correspond to real-world academic qualifications. After having the title of authoritative scholar, you have the qualification to nominate the editor of the encyclopedia website. The owner of this editorial qualification does not receive a salary, but has the right to delete the content and roll back the content of the encyclopedia to the previous version. At the same time, once the definition of certain terms has been recognized by netizens, then, in the future, the compilation will enter a lock-in period, and the adapted content can only be officially updated if multiple editors approve it. This makes many good teachers happy to write entries.

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After Pangu Encyclopedia became the first fire on the Internet, William Zhang also returned to North America to rearrange the strategic positioning of the North American branch.

For example, some relatively short pure digital domain names, or some domain names for shopping, search, news, games, reading, etc., naturally do not hesitate to register.

More than 1,000 domain names have been registered just as an appetizer.

"William, you've registered too much!" said Bill, an employee of the U.S. government's domain name management agency, a little scrambling to handle business, and at the same time, a little complaining.

"At $100 per domain name, what's there to complain about?" William Zhang laughed, "I'm helping the government lighten the burden." Otherwise, no one has registered a domain name, and sooner or later this organization will have to be abolished. ”

"No matter how many domain names are registered, it will only reduce the loss. Did you know that we spend more than $30 million a year on domain name management alone. Even if, you register 1,000 domain names, it's only $10,000. Bill disagreed.

"Assuming that the domain name is popular, there will be more users registered in the future, millions of users, isn't it enough to make money?" Although William Zhang could not imagine the grand occasion of millions of websites, he was still very bold because he was brainwashed by the boss Lin Qi.

"This can't be ......," Bill's eyes rolled, "even if it were possible, we would only be able to receive tens of thousands of dollars in wages as government employees, and we would be so tired of handling business that we would not have a share of the performance...... I said, William Chang, is it really possible?"

"Really!" said William Zhang, "the Internet will definitely be hot in the future, and domain name registration will be hot sooner or later." Only, there are companies that prove that a website with a domain name can attract a large number of users. Even if it is aimed at the advertising value on the Internet, the value of the domain name will be recognized rapidly. ”

Bill stuck out his tongue and wondered if he could operate it and let the government outsource the domain name service to the private sector in advance, and then he would register a company that operated domain name registration......

In fact, although Bill is not in a high position, he has this ability, because he has good connections, and his family even has members of Congress.

It was precisely because of this idea that Bill Scott gradually began to recruit other staff in the department and began to operate in tandem. At the same time, Bill is also beginning to convince his congressman's cousin!

The reason, of course, is to reduce the burden on the U.S. government, and outsourcing projects that lose tens of millions of dollars a year not only gets rid of the burden, but also hopes to make money. If this reason is put forward by the congressman, I am afraid that it will receive a large number of responses from the government and the opposition.

It was precisely because of this episode that in 88, the U.S. government outsourced domain name registration services. At the same time, Bill Scott's energy was not enough to eat alone, which led to the first batch of five top-level domain registration companies authorized by the U.S. government.

And a few years later, the number of domain name registration companies has blossomed everywhere.

The development of this historical Internet industry, driven by the new venture electronics, is at least five years faster than in history!