Elon Musk Identified as Buyer of X.com Domain Name

Elon Musk Identified as Buyer of X.com Domain Name

LOS ANGELES — The buyer of the X.com domain name has been identified, but don’t expect adult content to be shown on the site.

DomainInvesting reported last night that Elon Musk was the purchaser of X.com in a domain acquisition that took place last week.

X.com’s previous owner, PayPal, confirmed that the company sold the domain name to Musk, but declined to reveal its purchase price.

“We are delighted to sell the domain x.com back to its previous owner, Elon Musk,” PayPal spokeswoman Amanda Miller told DomainInvesting yesterday.

X.com has never provided adult entertainment content or services to the masses. Instead the domain sat idle after its registrant, PayPal, discontinued online banking company X.com in the early 2000s.

Musk, a Canadian-American business magnate, investor, engineer and inventor, was the former owner of X.com.

He currently is the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, the Boring Co., and is ranked as the 80th-wealthiest person in the world with a net worth of $15.2 billion.

It isn’t likely that Musk will bringing back X.com as an online banking company. But it could mean that his SpaceX might be a candidate for rebranding using the single-digit domain X.com.

Musk’s new online property, X.com, which currently doesn’t resolve, has an expiration date is listed as October 2026.

Officials at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., did not immediately respond to XBIZ inquiries over Musk’s domain name purchase. 

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