It's still Twitter. There's no need to call it X unless you want to want to do free advertising for Musk's name change.
Changing the name to X was just a bad idea.
Nowadays kids only know it as the Rogers Centre and may have only heard Skydome from their parents. If X/Twitter is still around in 10 years (I’m pretty 50/50 on those odds) then I think it’ll be known officially and colloquially as X, not Twitter.
Until then calling it "twitter dot com" is still accurate.
Wasnt expecting that :(
Looks like nissan.com site is dead too, this is how it looked in 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200608045052/https://nissan.co...
All single octet length top level domain (TLD) names are reserved.
Should the root zone ever get very large, there are technical
solutions involving referral to servers providing splits of the zone
based on the first name octet, which would be eased by having the
single byte TLDs available. In addition, these provide a potential
additional axis for DNS expansion. For like reasons, it is
recommended that within TLD zones or indeed within any zone that is
or might become very large, in the absence of a strong reason to the
contrary, all single octet names be reserved.
I want b.com because "Be dotcom!" sounded cool.
All the things I thought would have been too stupid to work seems to have been very profitable
Someone else made a comparison to phone numbers which turned out to be accurate. Simple sells.
Isn't that the truth. The amount of stupid ideas that have turned out to be wildly successful.
I strongly believe if there was original gTLDs and ccTLDs, internet would be a better place.
Take bob.builders, it's a perfectly valid domain, but if you see it on the back of a van, even if it's www.bob.builders, it's not recognizably as a website. www.b.com has the exact same problem, even x.com / www.x.com is just weird and looks like a mistake. The one letter domains have the added issue that you have no association that might indicate where the domain will take you.
Just "x" alone isn't really the brand.
It's more like "x.com" is the canonical name.
From that perspective, "x" or "x.com" is about as good as brand recognition can get. It's simple and perfectly descriptive of an "everything app" and payment processing business.
It sounds like a porn website. I don't think most business owners would want this as their brand, but I guess Elon is special in this way as well.
Believe they need to be short and easy to Google even if you don't know how to spell them (not saying the above brand names are perfect). Find it annoying hearing Xero having to be spelt out on the radio to stop people going to zero.com.
Not particularly a fan of combining two English words together like Facebook, Freetrade, GitHub etc. but the worst is when companies try to own a common word like Apple.
I jest but those Firaxis guys must be eager to do something about this whole thing before twitter blew up. Its around the time for the third installment of the reboot.
I don't know that it is self-evident.
The open source implementation of the X Window System is provided by the x.org foundation. https://x.org/wiki/
It doesn't change the fact that it looks a bit weird.
I think any domain that is shorter than it's tld looks a bit funky and requires a second look to process that it is real.
> The open source implementation of the X Window System is provided by the x.org foundation. https://x.org/wiki/
I know way more about the inner mechanics of X11 than the average Linux user (which is saying something), but if you had asked me in a different context what x.org pointed to, I would have had no idea. (And then would have said, "oh, right" as soon as you told me the answer).
That's the tell-tale sign of a bad branding decision. I'm not going to fault X too much for that since they literally predate the Web[0], and because they're targeting a very specialized audience, but any mainstream company that makes the same mistake in 2023 deserves whatever criticism they get for it.
[0] The foundation itself doesn't, but the underlying projects do, and the foundation was formed as a merger so it depends on where you choose to start the clock.
Today they do. When a domain was $200 to register in the 90’s, people treated URLs like phone numbers were also treated at the time - to be written down, memorized and then typed precisely in (with slashes!) to find whatever Bob the builder was offering.
It’s odd to me tbh that phone numbers were solved with contact lists and address books, along with the occasional “new phone, who dis?”
Twitter was already one of the most male-dominated social media (especially outside the US), I think it would be interesting to see the evolution now that this became X. I'd bet a huge majority of new joiners are male (due yo the branding change), and a small majority of 'leaver' are female.
My email address is first@last.me - I now automatically say "no .com" or similar. Too many CS experiences where "we can't find your email address" "try first@last.me.com" "Oh, there it is".
I’d like to call it something different, and since many people say “x/twitter”, I guess others have similar thoughts.
I’m not unhappy that there are few other single letter domains, especially if they were to be claimed by corporations.
Coincidence ?
I have far less confidence that x.com links will continue to work for years than twitter.com links.
Just like Prince.
> This seems weird as the domain was sold in 2014 for 6.8M USD, which would be around 8.9M USD today taking inflation into account.
Caught my attention, 30% inflation in just 9 years...
When domain names became big business, those rules were changed.
Another old rule is that the domain name could not start with a digit.
He's been looking for an excuse to use it ever since paypal.
its an honest mistake, please forgive me.