Domainbox Industry News

Thursday, September 1, 2011

X.com Domain to Become App Seller

Single letter .COM domains are like gold dust on the Internet as only three were registered before a ban was implemented to stop people getting their hands on them. As a result, the only three that are in the public domain are z.com (registered to Nissan), Q.com (registered to Qwest communications) and x.com which is currently owned by PayPal. The domain x.com has for a long time been unused, but this month it has been revealed that PayPal and eBay are joining forces to use the domain as a place where developers can sell applications on the web. …