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x.com lab site

October 4, 2007

I just headed over to paypal.com by my usual lazy method of entering the letter x into the address bar and hitting ctrl+enter - and instead of redirecting me to paypal.com like it normally does, it instead goes to a PayPal Labs page.

There are only a few projects on the go at the moment, one for Facebook which can be used to get money from your friends, and one for MySpace so that you can raise money for various charities. I assume it will be something along the lines of JustGiving.

It could be interesting to keep an eye on the site to see if any other projects do arise out of the lab in the near future.

Interestingly enough, x.com, owned by PayPal Inc, is only one of 3 single letter .com domain names that are registered.

The other two are q.com registered to Qwest Communications International Inc. and pointing to Quest.com; and also z.com which is registered to Nissan North America, Inc and goes to nissanusa.com

The other single letters are reserved.

I wonder how much they would sell z.com for?

Comments

3 Responses to “x.com lab site”

  1. tenderhooligan on October 4th, 2007 5:09 pm

    “Interestingly enough, x.com, owned by PayPal Inc, is only one of 3 single letter .com domain names that are registered.”

    Nerd! ;)

  2. murphyz on October 5th, 2007 8:20 am

    My eyes glaze over when you talk of Dr. Who - each to their own :)
    Mxx

  3. tenderhooligan on October 5th, 2007 11:59 am

    Fair point, fella. ;)

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