On a lark I entered x.com thinking that it, and all the other one-letter TLDs, had been snapped up decades ago. I was surprised that it redirects to Twitter.com.
Did Elon just pay someone millions to register that domain name?
He’s apparently held it for quite a long time, back when he was hoping to use it for PayPal.
He got it by buying it in 1999.
John and Exene must be pissed.
You snooze, you lose, says the hungry wolf. They have xtheband.com.
Musk paid $1M for the domain in 1999 - I don’t think they’d have gone that high at any point in their career.
And then spent unspecified millions re-buying it from Paypal back in 2017
Genius and visionary are the two words that immediately spring to mind.
Interesting. I was working for network solutions that year. I managed the system that sent him the bill.