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- weatherlight 9y agoRhishi?
- dharness 9y agoBest thing I've ever seen on HN.
- qubex 9y agoMoney well spent.
- chaoticmass 9y agoDidn't this used to be owned by PayPal?
- chaoticmass 9y agoooh 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]
- taheca 9y agoSomeone on Twitter suggested he use x.com as his Alphabet type of holding company, and he agreed that might be the best idea for it.
- _jn 9y agoSounded [0] more like a suggestion to use it as a list of companies he's involved in, not a company by itself... [0]: https://twitter.com/jondaily83/status/884689301002362880 https://twitter.com/jondaily83/status/884689301002362880
- cphoover 9y agosuper fast load times.
- cond289123 9y ago( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- thephyber 9y agoInteresting header: > Vary:User-Agent Maybe it's a clue to hidden content...
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- mimg 9y agoVary: User-Agent header, caching servers should consider the user agent when deciding whether to serve the page from cache. [1] [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Vary https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Va...
- jwilk 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com
- kinkrtyavimoodh 9y agoA 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 9y agoI just finished a project where I tried to fulfill those ideals, but it still comes in at around 200kb.
- InitialLastName 9y agoIt 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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- zck 9y agoThere are two validation errors in the source! https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0 https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2F&cha...
- cartyboi29 9y agoOh wow 10/10 great find.... Get a girl homie
- nsgi 9y agoSee also http://www.something.com/ http://www.something.com/
- type0 9y agoThat was quite a something...
- nvr219 9y agoWhy's Elon using godaddy
- unstatusthequo 9y agoDamn good point. Seems like the ideals don't match up.
- relaxitup 9y agoChrome no likey the SSL cert
- matthberg 9y agoThis 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.
- droidist2 9y agoThis piece is interesting. Reminds me of a little of endless.horse from a couple years back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9558687 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9558687
- sunstone 9y agoX marks the spot.