X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?

Post by bluedino » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 1:06 PM UTC

chrismorgan wrote: post #23

Incidental: I’ve seen people increasingly using x.com links in their articles. How does that happen? As far as I can tell, it just redirects to twitter.com and that’s where everything is, but it doesn’t seem likely that everyone’s changing twitter to x, so is there something that is giving these links? I have far less confidence that x.com links will continue to work for years than twitter.com links.

Post by geraldhh » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 1:10 PM UTC

ak_111 wrote: post #9

henpa wrote: post #3

I remember around 1999 when I used to work for a big ISP and I ran a simple perl script that would "nslookup" all combination of 3 letters domains. It generated a huge list of available domains, but none that called my attention because all the good ones (not just random letters) seemed to be already registered. I would never thought that all those random 3 letter domains would sell for so much money many years later…

I think there are some 3 letter domain available on most TLD including .ai, I wonder why these haven't been taken up yet?

Post by bad_user » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 1:13 PM UTC

sublinear wrote: post #37

mrweasel wrote: post #5

One letter domains has the same issue as many of the gTLDs, they aren't particularly useful in terms of brand recognition. X.com is pretty stupid as well, you can't meaningfully use it as a brand. Take bob.builders, it's a perfectly valid domain, but if you see it on the back of a van, even if it's www.bob.builders, it's not recognizably as a website. www.b.com has the exact same problem, even x.com / www.x.com is ju…

> X.com is pretty stupid as well, you can't meaningfully use it as a brand. Just "x" alone isn't really the brand. It's more like "x.com" is the canonical name. From that perspective, "x" or "x.com" is about as good as brand recognition can get. It's simple and perfectly descriptive of an "everything app" and payment processing business.

Post by vasco » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 1:25 PM UTC

bad_user wrote: post #45

sublinear wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> X.com is pretty stupid as well, you can't meaningfully use it as a brand. Just "x" alone isn't really the brand. It's more like "x.com" is the canonical name. From that perspective, "x" or "x.com" is about as good as brand recognition can get. It's simple and perfectly descriptive of an "everything app" and payment processing business.

Except it's missing the "everything" aspect, payments processing, or the support of the Chinese government.

Post by sgc » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 1:32 PM UTC

herbst wrote: post #36

mrweasel wrote: post #5

One letter domains has the same issue as many of the gTLDs, they aren't particularly useful in terms of brand recognition. X.com is pretty stupid as well, you can't meaningfully use it as a brand. Take bob.builders, it's a perfectly valid domain, but if you see it on the back of a van, even if it's www.bob.builders, it's not recognizably as a website. www.b.com has the exact same problem, even x.com / www.x.com is ju…

X.com probably makes sense in the assumption that he turns Twitter into a WeChat clone as kinda 'everything app' which would obviously fail. But as 'everything app' X is kinda a strong brand IMO.