Company type | Private |
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Founded | March 1999 Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
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Defunct | 2000 |
Fate | Merged March 2000 with Confinity to form PayPal; URL reused in 2024 for Twitter rebrand to X |
Successor | PayPal |
Website | www.x.com (defunct, archive) |
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X.com was an American online bank founded by Ed Ho, Harris Fricker, Elon Musk, and Christopher Payne in 1999 in Palo Alto, California. In 2000, it merged with competitor Confinity and in 2001, the merged company changed its name to PayPal. Starting in 2023, the x.com internet domain name began to be used for Twitter which was acquired by Musk in 2022 and subsequently rebranded to X.