Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Elon Musk Buys Back X.com
Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, has acquired the domain name X.com, from PayPal. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Elon Musk had started X.com in January of 1999, before it merged with Confinity and became PayPal. Apparently, Elon Musk had acquired X.com from its former owners for stock in X.com (now PayPal), well before PayPal's IPO. X.com is one of only three, single letter dot com domains in existence, which were grandfathered into the domain name system in 1993; the only other single letter dot com domains are q.com (CenturyLink), and z.com (GMO Internet). X.com was originally registered by Weinstein & DePaolis of Scotts Valley, California.
Thanks PayPal for allowing me to buy back https://t.co/bOUOejO16Y! No plans right now, but it has great sentimental value to me.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 11, 2017