As early as1May, 995, an American software engineer named Robert Huntsman registered the domain name of QQ.COM and used it as the portal of his personal film art website. Later, after Robert switched to business consulting, he didn't have time to take care of this website, so he put his QQ.COM domain name on the overseas auction website for sale. However, due to the high price ($2 million), it has been ignored. On March 2 1 2003, Tencent got in touch with Robert Huntsman, a software engineer from Boise, Idaho, USA, and prepared to buy QQ.COM domain name from abroad at a high price. Tencent didn't go through a foreign domain name trading company to buy the domain name in QQ.COM, but directly found the original owner of the domain name in QQ.COM, Robert Huntsman, and then conducted the remote operation transaction through an agent familiar with domain name trading. According to the domain name valuation model of GREATDOMAINS, the most famous domain name trader on the Internet at present, the domain name value is determined by the domain name length (characters), commercial value (business) and the three C's of the top-level domain name. com)。 QQ.COM's domain name can reach the highest rating of 4 stars rated by GREATDOMAINS, and its valuation should be 65,438+million-1.2000 USD (about 800,000-100000 RMB).