Reddit x-poster@infosec.pubB to Enough Musk Spam@lemmy.world · 1 year ago44 billion for a cringey rebrand. What will they call tweets now? ReXs?i.redd.itimagemessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1158arrow-down18
arrow-up1150arrow-down1image44 billion for a cringey rebrand. What will they call tweets now? ReXs?i.redd.itReddit x-poster@infosec.pubB to Enough Musk Spam@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square45fedilink
minus-squareXanXic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoI can’t imagine how much the x.com domain costed him. Like I know most three or four letter domains trade hands for six figures sometimes since there’s so few https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_domain Like apparently single letter domains are reserved so idk how he got one Edit: found out. He bought it from PayPal after they stopped using it for their brand years ago. $6.8 million dollars for a domain.
minus-squareultratiem @lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoHe wanted PayPal to be called X so I’m wondering if he didn’t have this domain the whole time.
minus-squareriodoro1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoMoney. If something is “reserved” or even “illegal” you just need to pay more
I can’t imagine how much the x.com domain costed him. Like I know most three or four letter domains trade hands for six figures sometimes since there’s so few
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_domain
Like apparently single letter domains are reserved so idk how he got one
Edit: found out. He bought it from PayPal after they stopped using it for their brand years ago. $6.8 million dollars for a domain.
He wanted PayPal to be called X so I’m wondering if he didn’t have this domain the whole time.
The wiki article says as much
Money. If something is “reserved” or even “illegal” you just need to pay more