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How was PayPal able to get a single-letter dot com domain? I thought they were all reserved. But then there is x.org on the other hand too, hmm...
by pdmccormick 15y ago
How was PayPal able to get a single-letter dot com domain? I thought they were all reserved. But then there is x.org on the other hand too, hmm...
- SoftwareMaven 15y agoThey've had x.com for many years.
- clintboxe 15y agox.com was Elon Musk's precursor to Paypal.
- davidu 15y agoA glitch in the matrix many many years ago. :-)
- Urgo 15y agoX.com used to be a bank back in the day, my first bank I got while in college as it happens. They bought paypal (I think it was that way, not the other way around but I may be mistaken) and killed the bank. X.com just resurfaced a few years ago in its new form.
- treyp 15y agoIt looks like what you were thinking of was a merger: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Beginnings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Beginnings PayPal was the new result of a merger between Confinity (the company Max Levchin founded, as discussed in Founders At Work) and X.com, an online bank.
- slouch 15y agoThere are a few others out there, like http://q.com/ http://q.com/
- treyp 15y agoSeveral single-letter domains were purchased before the IANA reserved all of the remaining ones in 1993. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_domain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_doma...