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Elon Musk bought back the website name from his second-ever company, which he left in 2002.
Way back in 1999, Elon Musk started X.com, his second-ever company.
It was an online bank that would go on to become PayPal. In 2001, he stepped aside, leaving behind both X.com the company and X.com the domain name.
Now, over 16 years later, Musk and X.com are back together: PayPal confirms with Business Insider that Elon Musk has repurchased the X.com domain name.
http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-purchases-xcom-domain-name-2017-7To be clear, he hasn't purchased PayPal, or even a sliver of PayPal. All he purchased was X.com, a highly-desirable single-letter website address, and he can now do whatever he wants with it.