OF COURSE he uses GoDaddy
"X.com now points to https://twitter.com/"
Submitted 11 months ago by briongloid@aussie.zone to technology@lemmy.world
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TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 11 months ago
waigl@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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…
briongloid@aussie.zone 11 months ago
I took the screenshot in the just hour, at the same time as the tweet.
r00ty@kbin.life 11 months ago
Godaddy 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.
dojan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m so sad x.com wasn’t an xcom fansite already. Would’ve loved to see him fume over it not being available.
fearout@kbin.social 11 months ago
It was his in the 00s and he bought it back in 2017, as some article mentioned earlier.
briongloid@aussie.zone 11 months ago
It’s almost like a sitcom.
jeffw@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Next he just has to register s.com, e.com, and y.com so that he can make the Tesla joke all over again!
ellesper@lemmy.world 11 months ago
a sit.com, if you will
yiliu@informis.land 11 months ago
…How did we make it through the 00’s without a sit.com?
briongloid@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Let that sink.com in
caboclo@lemmy.eco.br 11 months ago
right?!
scarabic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
ashok36@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
zahel@cosmere.xyz 11 months ago
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_bereavement@kbin.social 11 months ago
Plus short searches are harder, specially with single letters.
BrudderAaron@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Would 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.
yiliu@informis.land 11 months ago
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…
BrudderAaron@lemmy.world 11 months ago
BUT HE’S RICH AND THEREFORE A GOOD BUSINESS MAN! /s
bloopernova@programming.dev 11 months ago
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.
db2@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Implying he can read…
LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why go to x.com when you can go to xxx.com?
Paradox@lemdro.id 11 months ago
Why not x.xxx
DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why stop there when there’s xxx.xxx or even xxx.xxx.xxx
instamat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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
jeffw@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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
Chozo@kbin.social 11 months ago
Elon has owned this for a while.
He bought it from PayPal ages ago.
EnderWi99in@kbin.social 11 months 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.
Vamanos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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!
waigl@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
db2@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Twitter didn’t announce it, Twit did.
Dukeofdummies@kbin.social 11 months ago
Wait 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?
czech@no.faux.moe 11 months ago
x.com pointed to paypay back in 2000..... Elon may have been that edgelord the entire time!
nolannice@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Glass Onion has aged so unbelievably well.
czech@no.faux.moe 11 months ago
Until yesterday the page just had an 'x' on it.
ApeNo1@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Googles “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.
over_clox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This disappoints a letter in my username.
Oh well, at least I earned my username, Elon pissed away $44 billion for X/Twitter
Irv@midwest.social 11 months ago
This is a Kendall Roy move.
Mereo@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I’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.
Im_Cool_I_Promise@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Seems like it goes to .twitter.com now, which my browser refuses to load because of the . in front of it
mateomaui@reddthat.com 11 months ago
LOL, same here! He can’t even forward a domain correctly.
bloopernova@programming.dev 11 months ago
The clown music continues to get louder and louder.
ultratiem@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Your fiver profile said you could do this bro! Ok try now. Nope! Now? Bro. Ok hold up, lemme search Google right quick.
r00ty@kbin.life 11 months ago
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.
itsnotlupus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
He literally just fixed it, and he learned nothing from this, Dunning-Kruger as strong as always.