• @Eldritch
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    89 months ago

    People honestly doubted that he would give up the branding. With how much he’s cast it aside. Why in the long run would he keep the domain? It’s just a reminder of what he’s thrown away. What strategic value does it hold at this point?

    • Gnome Kat
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      9 months ago

      The value is obviously to stop people from using it. Even if Elon doesn’t want to use it, doesn’t mean it would make sense to just give up the domain to someone. People still associate it with X so it would hurt the value of X if someone used it to host a twitter alternative like a masto instance.

      • @jarfil
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        09 months ago

        He could sell it to a shell company that could redirect it to pornhub… that ought to make the trick and stop all media from still referring to 𝕏 as “Twitter”, without the risk of someone using it to compete with 𝕏.

    • @query
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      29 months ago

      Main issue with a domain like that, is there are links to it everywhere. Very exploitable. Most of which Musk might not care about, but it would be a way of getting a lot of people’s login information.