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x.com was a seperate company which merged with Paypal

And indeed if you open https://x.com you now get sent to Twitter

Seems that he wanted to put the domain to use

I would wonder how much did Twitter - the company - pay the owner of X.com (Musk) for permission to use the name?

> this domain he owns for decades now

Musk did not own x.com between 2001 and 2017.