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With all the weird ideas and concepts Elon Musk seeds on Twitter, keeping track of his next seemingly eccentric idea that may turn into a real business is essential. That’s why Musk’s latest acquisition is so very intriguing: X.com. 

Musk didn’t tout the domain buy publicly, but thanks to the ever watchful domain prospector site DomainInvesting we know that he bought the site from PayPal earlier this month for an undisclosed sum. 

Old school internet heads will remember that Musk was the original owner of the domain back in 1999 when it was an online financial services company. X.com later merged with Confinity, which later rebranded itself as PayPal. A quick search of X.com on Archive.org shows that X.com was already redirecting to PayPal back in 2001.  Read more…

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