PAYPAL IS REALLY WWW.X.COM

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Posted By: Ernest T

I AM NOT SURE IF YOU GOOD PEOPLE KNOW THAT PAYPAL WEB SITE IS REALLY WWW.X.COM. THIS IS THE SHORT WEB ADDRESS THAT EXISTS. ONE OF THING PAYPAL MAKES MORE PROFIT THAN THEIR EBAY SITE. THERE IS GOING TO BE A NEW WEB SITE CALLED GBAY AND MOST EXPERT BELIVE THEY WILL GIVE PAYPAL A RUN FOR THERE MONEY AND SO DO I. PAYPAL NEEDS SOME COMPETION TO LOWER THE PRICES THEY CHARGE.

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Posted By: jay behrens

there are no single letter dot-anythings out there. There has been talk recently about allowing them and the Yahoo and Overstock have already filed legal papers to try and ensure they get www.y.com and www.o.com, respectively.

Jay

Growing old is not optional, growing up is.

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Posted By: Joann

Jay - will it be a footrace between us for www.j.com???

(BTW, incredibly gorgeous Indian cards you just posted.)

J (dot-com) hee

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Posted By: jay behrens

nah, I'm not that vain.

the Indian cards are cool, but not as nice as n36s but almost as rare. They are supposed to be part of a game called of an "old game called Indian". No one has been able to tell what the game is. Even the people I was in contact with from Ganong had no idea what the game was about.

Jay

Growing old is not optional, growing up is.

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

Hey Leon....This thread has nothing to do with baseball...give it the ax!

Patrick

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Posted By: Ben

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Posted By: Anonymous

so....who do ya'll like in the Belmont next Saturday?

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Posted By: leon

Anyone that comes on the board and can't write nearly as well as my 3rd grader will end up hanging themselves. Tough crowd.....just the way I like it.

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Posted By: Josh K.

well, I just typed in "www.x.com" and guess what - I went to paypal's website - or at least a very good copy of it. Jay, I think you may want to revisit your earlier assumption.

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Posted By: Max Weder

Didn't Tug McGraw (sorry, the non-vintage McGraw) say:

YOU GOTTA BELIVE.

or maybe not.

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Posted By: Joann

Yeah Josh - I had been wondering about that. PayPal's site? Or someone using forums for fishing? (I know - it's phishing - but can't get myself to use it casually.)

J

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Posted By: Josh K.

I believe its a real good phish and I certainly wouldnt recommend putting in your password.

I sort of wonder if ol Ernest is in on the scam.

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Posted By: jay behrens

I just tried www.y.com and www.o.com and got invalid url messages. If single letter URLs are being allowed, these two would be among the first to go along with www.a.com and www.z.com. I'd guess it's a phishing scheme.

Jay

Growing old is not optional, growing up is.

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Posted By: Miguel Danielson

Actually, X.com is, I believe, one of the only single letter domain names that was allowed to get into public circulation. The others were reserved by IANA, which originally ran the .com TLD. ICANN now controls their destiny and has, thus far, locked them up for some future use down the road. When I was in law school, a class I had on Internet Law had some big whigs from ICANN as guest speakers and they mentioned (this was around 2000) that one thought was to auction the domain names to raise funds for ICANN's operations.

In any event, as regards PayPal, that service was in fact formerly known only as X.com, and I believe there was either an acquisition or merger involved. Since that time, X.com simply points to PayPal's website.

I remember using X.com before PayPal was even around, and if I recall, that's actually when I signed up for my account.

Regards,
Miguel

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Posted By: Shawn Adkins

X.com used to be known as "com corporation" and they provided the same services as paypal before paypal was around. Paypal and com joined together (no buyout just equal partners) to create the largest online banking and payment service of it's day.

I remember it fairly well because shorlty after the new year, in 2000, it was announced that they had a very serious flaw in the sites design. When transfering funds, you were able to just type in the account number of the withdrawl and deposit accounts...pretty simple and straight forward right? The only problem was that there was no security check in place to see if you actually owned either of those accounts. All you needed was someones checking account number (from any back in the US) and you could just withdraw funds from that account into your own.

They merged with paypal later that year. Yep, the good ole days of ecommerce.

Shawn

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Posted By: Josh K.

I still think its a phish. I emailed paypal and asked their security center if www.x.com was actually a link to them or a phish. The response was basically that they could not tell me if the website was legit or not. If paypal doesnt even know one of its own web addresses, Im certainly not going to use it.

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Posted By: Joe D.

x.com is owned by PayPal.

if its a phish... they went to great lengths...
and even have their domain listed as owned by PayPal.

but - just in case - I still go to paypal.com to get to my account.

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Posted By: Brian

WHOIS Record For
x.com


Registrant:
PayPal Inc.
2211 North First Street
San Jose, CA 95131
US

Domain Name: X.COM

Administrative Contact , Technical Contact :
eBay Inc.
hostmaster@ebay.com
2145 Hamilton Avenue
San Jose, CA 95125
US
Phone: (408) 376-7400
Fax: (408) 376-7514

Record expires on 20-Oct-2009
Record created on 02-Apr-1993
Database last updated on 03-May-2006

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Posted By: Anonymous

X.com was one of the first internet banks. I know because I had an account there. It is not a fisch. It later renamed itself to Paypal.