Elon Musk Buys x.com Domain from PayPal

It could just be a sentimental purchase for Musk — or, it could be a blank slate for a new, albeit cryptic, project.

By Chelsea Gohd

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Musk’s New Purchase

This past Friday, Elon Musk got a little bit cryptic on Twitter:

So what does this mean? Well, this questionable comment came after a late night tweet announcing the launch of x.com.

If you go to the site itself, you won’t be met by much more than one single, solitary “x.” The website is launched, but far from complete — however, it’s apparently been a long time coming. In the 90’s, Musk founded an online payment company called X.com. This startup is what later became Paypal. The domain x.com has — since it was acquired by the massive payment company — belonged to . Before the formal launch, Musk announced that he’d bought back the domain, and implied that x.com is currently just a sentimental purchase for him.

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