Elon Musk just harbinger the launching of a fresh website , x.com . The billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX made the proclamation on Twitter at 1:21am Pacific metre this morning . But so far there is n’t much to seem at . The website is just a singleletter X.
Excited to announce the launch ofhttps://t.co/J6TuRWIQAA ! It ’s a small verbose right now , but that will be fixed tomorrow .
— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk)July 14 , 2017
Musk formerly own x.com when he was a co - founder at PayPal ( that ’s how he made his fortune ) but lost the demesne when the company went public and he left . Musk purchased the knowledge base back for an undisclosed sum originally this calendar month . conjecture for how much he give are in the8 - figure mountain range , but nobody know for trusted .
In 1993 , ICANN , the international group that regulates net domain epithet , determine that single - varsity letter area names would no longer be available for sale . The six area that had already been scooped up were grandfathered in , including “ q.com , ” “ x.com , “ z.com , ” “ i.net , ” “ q.net , ” and “ x.org . ”
In 2005 , ICANN toyed with the approximation of freeing up the single - letter domains , but thatdidn’t find . There are now plenty of other unmarried - digit land , including Twitter ’s link shortener ( t.co ) and Facebook ’s Messenger cutoff ( m.me ) , but Q , X and Z are the only .com name that are in use .
Musk has promised that x.com will be “ fixed ” tomorrow , which either means that he ’s going to give us a clue for what he plans to do with the internet site , or he ’s going to ramp up the website one letter of the alphabet at a metre . No one really knows .
What ’s your guess ? What do you hypothesize Musk be after to do with x.com ? Will he use it for one of his existing companies like SpaceX or Tesla ? Or will this be for a raw venture , perhaps exploring hislove of floors ?
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