---
title: "Elon Musk Buys x.com Domain from PayPal"
description: "Is Elon Musk's latest website a personal purchase or the start of a new (and secretive) venture?"
date: "2017-07-16"
modified: "2017-11-30"
authors:
  - name: "Chelsea Gohd"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/chelseagohd"
url: "https://futurism.com/elon-musk-buys-x-com-domain-from-paypal"
categories:
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Future Society"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "elon musk"
  - "paypal"
  - "SpaceX"
  - "x.com"
---

# Elon Musk Buys x.com Domain from PayPal

![elon musk spacex paypal x.com](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/10611143395_30597e6575_o.jpg>)
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## Musk's New Purchase

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

It's what you don't say

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) [July 14, 2017](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/885921115435974657>)

So what does this mean? Well, this questionable comment came after a late night tweet announcing the launch of [x.com](<http://x.com/>).

Excited to announce the launch of [https://t.co/J6TuRWIQAA](<https://t.co/J6TuRWIQAA>)! It's a little verbose right now, but that will be fixed tomorrow.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) [July 14, 2017](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/885776126148083712>)

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.

Thanks PayPal for allowing me to buy back [https://t.co/bOUOejO16Y](<https://t.co/bOUOejO16Y>)! No plans right now, but it has great sentimental value to me.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) [July 11, 2017](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/884580654117076992>)

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