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dharness
Best thing I've ever seen on HN.
qubex
Money well spent.
chaoticmass
Didn't this used to be owned by PayPal?
chaoticmass
ooh

From Wikipedia: On July 5, 2017 Elon Musk repurchased the domain name X.com from PayPal.[5][6] On 14 July 2017, Musk announced the "launch of x.com" on Twitter.[7] When the page launch it consisted of a blank white page with one "x" in the top left corner.[8]

kinkrtyavimoodh
A great throwback to the nicer and simpler web of the 90s that so many of us grew up loving. Informative, no-nonsense content, fast loading even on a 28kbps modem, no BS tracking and analytics and ads and popups.
reysc
I just finished a project where I tried to fulfill those ideals, but it still comes in at around 200kb.
InitialLastName
It seems there's an open opportunity: single letter domain names see only very limited use.

I've just scanned through, and only x.com, q.com, and z.com resolved. q.com redirects to a centurylink setup page, and z.com is a japanese media group.

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nvr219
Why's Elon using godaddy
unstatusthequo
Damn good point. Seems like the ideals don't match up.
matthberg
This was the name of Elon Musk's banking startup which later merged with PayPal. Elon acquired the domain recently, though we don't know what he will use it for.