Briongloid"X.com now points to https://twitter.com/"
It’s almost like a sitcom.
jeffwNext he just has to register s.com, e.com, and y.com so that he can make the Tesla joke all over again!
ellespera sit.com, if you will
Let that sink.com in
yiliu…How did we make it through the 00’s without a sit.com?
Cauêright?!
right?!
OF COURSE he uses GoDaddy
Not necessarily, more like GoDaddy was the domain swatter that was holding on to that domain until Musk decided to pay the ransom. We cannot tell from the screenshot what registrar he uses for that domain now.
We can, however, tell from whois, and what do you know, it’s godaddy…
I took the screenshot in the just hour, at the same time as the tweet.
beefsackThe amount he must have paid for that would have been obscene.
He bought the domain from PayPal I think
r00tyGodaddy AND cloudflare. twitter.com doesn't use either, which coupled with the typo on the redirect makes this really feel like a very Musk initiated thing going on here.
I bet he's on the free tier of cloudflare too.
Seems like it goes to .twitter.com now, which my browser refuses to load because of the . in front of it
LOL, same here! He can’t even forward a domain correctly.
bloopernovaThe clown music continues to get louder and louder.
X X baby, dun dun dun dudu dun dun
Now twitter’s X X baby
Your fiver profile said you could do this bro! Ok try now. Nope! Now? Bro. Ok hold up, lemme search Google right quick.
I thought there was a different redirect on ipv6 for a moment, maybe there was for a short time.
x.com on ipv4 maps to 104.18.16.213 and ipv6 maps to 2606:4700::6812:10d5 and that right now is a cloudflare server with a 302 redirect to "https://.twitter.com" most importantly is, SSL doesn't work on it. It fails with an ssl error on curl.
So, yeah. Quite a funny mess up.
He literally just fixed it, and he learned nothing from this, Dunning-Kruger as strong as always.
muskrat probably read an email that said “we’ll go live with x pointing to twitter, but there’s a couple of things that have to happen first.”
And only read the “x pointing to twitter” part.
Implying he can read…
Replacing a notable, at this point ingrained part of modern internet culture, to the letter “X”
LMAO. Elon just doing whatever to stay in the headlines.
massive_bereavementPlus short searches are harder, specially with single letters.
In fairness, DNS entries do get cached for a while (usually 24 hours), so you might have gotten a stale version of the resource record. It’s even entirely possible that whatever DNS resolver Musk uses did have the up to date version already while yours did not.
Still, Twitter should double and triple checked that this works even from other resolvers before announcing it like this.
Twitter didn’t announce it, Twit did.
Right, the head twit, the one who “doesn’t need” to ever consult with domain experts from his own companies, because he “knows” he’s right about everything anyway…
I think Musk is just living out his 90s/2000s edgelord fantasy. “I AM THE OWNER OF X. X IS EVERYTHING… TO THE XTREME!”
Holy shit, he’s the boneitis guy from Futurama!
xBender isn’t wrong tho
DojanI’m so sad x.com wasn’t an xcom fansite already. Would’ve loved to see him fume over it not being available.
fearoutIt was his in the 00s and he bought it back in 2017, as some article mentioned earlier.
Just used the wayback machine and it looks like a few years ago it redirected to the Boring Company, so Elon has owned this for a while.
Also, at one point, the website literally just had the letter X
ChozoElon has owned this for a while.
He bought it from PayPal ages ago.
He's been doing X shit forever. He had a comany in 1999 that merged with PayPal. Then he has SpaceX. Dude is obsessed with that letter for whatever reason like he wants to be known for it, but I'll only recognize David X. Cohen, co-creator of Futurama, as the true purveyor of the letter X.
Brudder AaronWould this not be an advertisement nightmare (Not that Twitter isn’t already one) to try to change a recognized brand’s name to something completely different?
Also lol Godaddy.com Motherfucker can afford to piss money and he chooses Godaddy.
And on top of changing it:
- ‘x’ isn’t searchable
- It’s associated with a thousand things already…including porn
- It sounds dated: as a culture, we went through an ‘x’ phase
There’s just no sense in which this is a good idea…
BUT HE’S RICH AND THEREFORE A GOOD BUSINESS MAN! /s
Vincent Adultman is also good at doing a business, and he’s just 2 kids in a trenchcoat dating a talking cat
Who cares
Oh god his obsession with X so awkward. We all had a thing (or things) that we are embarrassed to admit we liked as teens, but it seems like Elon never grew out of that phase.
I can’t wait for this X.com thing to finally get destroyed by the zeitgeist
Why go to x.com when you can go to xxx.com?
ParadoxWhy not x.xxx
DocMcStuffinWhy stop there when there’s xxx.xxx or even xxx.xxx.xxx
Xxx.xxx.xxx is just an arbitrary subdomain of xxx.xxx though.
You can apparently have up to 127 levels, so long as any level is 63 or less characters and the whole domain string is 253 or less.
I’m not going to type it all but it could be x.x.x.x.x.x…(several many more .x.x)…x.x.x.xxx if they really wanted.
Who is this rebrand for? A lot of people have ignored the Elon mess and kept using Twitter because “Twitter is Twitter” but if he takes that away, and people have to say “I posted on X…” then I hope another wave of them will quit for good.
DrunemetonKnowing what little I know of the boy, Elon probably wants to make everyone start saying, “I’m on X,” or “You can find me on X” as a puerile Ecstasy (MDMA) joke.
Of course they’ll no longer “Tweet” but instead they’ll “Xcrete”…
Well Twitter is already full of xcrement
What do you even call posts on X.com? Twitter had tweets. X has… What?
Twitter as a name was pretty much perfect. It explained the entire platform in a word. Musk thinks he can turn it into a WeChat for the English speaking world and that’s just not going to happen.
MereoI’m just so confused by all this. What’s his end game? Why doesn’t let his IT team handle the redirect as it redirects to .twitter.com which doesn’t work. Why X?
I guess a lot of these questions will not be answerable.
This is a Kendall Roy move.
This disappoints a letter in my username.
Oh well, at least I earned my username, Elon pissed away $44 billion for X/Twitter
DukeofdummiesWait that was real?!? I thought that was satire!!!
Jesus Christ that's the kind of name an angsty teenager gives their life changing app.
It's the most milk toast edge you could possibly give a website.
The only time that name is acceptable is for a website of nautical pirates.
How did he even get the domain from the edgelord who had it before who refused to get into myspace and decided to build his own website from scratch?
How many times did he have to misspell twitter before he put his foot down like this?
But if X is twitter, how will he mark his emerald mines on his map at home?
czechx.com pointed to paypal back in 2000..... Elon may have been that edgelord the entire time!
ApeNo1Googles “go daddy x.com” to gather more information about the topic online…
Frantically tries to press back on browser search hits as wife looks over and asks what the hell is on my screen.
Until yesterday the page just had an 'x' on it.
nolanniceGlass Onion has aged so unbelievably well.
It’s an exceptionally rare thing — in life or in business — that you get a second chance to make another big impression," the chief tweeted. “Twitter made one massive impression and changed the way we communicate. Now, X will go further, transforming the global town square.”
Yes yes. Indeed. I love referring to a company by a single letter. Think about all of the great SEO will come from this! Think about the great way this will unite us all!