One Letter .coms - For your information

[Windoms]

Only 3 letters one letter .com are assigned. The other 23 are owned by ICANN since 1993 and no one can register them.
q.com
x.com
z.com
They were already assigned when ICANN took that decision.
Lucky them.

z.com was acquired by a Japanese company for 6.8 million in 2014.

x.com used to be an online bank created in 1999 by Elon Musk.
In march 2000, x.com merges with Confinity, they own a product called PayPal. The new company is called x.com.
In September 2000, Musk is replaced by Peter Theil, co-founder of Confinity.
In 2001, x.com is renamed PayPal.
In 2002, PayPal is sold to eBay for 1.5 billion $ - Musk then owns 11.7%.
In 2017, Musk buys x.com from PayPal. Undisclosed amount.

q.com is owned by a company whose stock symbol is Q. Qwest Communications International. Subsidiary of CenturyLink. They've owned it since 1993.

Now imagine you own x.com and it is for sale. Only 3 one letter .coms available. You are used to cheap/medium offers, but nothing that will make you close the deal. One day, you are openly contacted by Elon Musk (@website.com). In this scenario he's never owned x.com before, so no emotional connection.
How much would you sell it for?

Hello, this is Elon Musk

I want x.com.
But I have other options.
I'll pay fair value.
I'm the only one who will.
z.com was sold. You know the price.
x.com is better.
SpaceX is nice.
You, me, no brokers.
You have 48 hours.
One answer, one price.
This email address will then disappear, and I'll move on.

Best regards

 

[Windoms]

Let's say you know for a fact if you miss the deal he's never coming back.
Let's say its publicly known he has to name a new SpaceX website soon so he needs an answer now.
So don't cast your vote based on the assumption that he'll come back.

 

[creataweb]

Wouldn't shock me if the name could be sold for $10 million+ considering the rarity.

 

[poweredbyme]

$250 million

 

[Smiles76]

$250 million

Not in a million years.