Proton Mail Auctioning Rare 'X' Username for Charity, Current Bid as of Posting is $50,000,000USD [Update: $15,000USD]

Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Technology@lemmy.ml – 246 points –
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Looking through the history looks a bit suspicious. Even if the questionable bids were removed, it’s still likely to be 100k+ for the username!

Edit: Closer to $15k right now lol.

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Even if I had enough money to buy this email, I wouldn't. Too many people would try to hack, steal, or buy the account from me. It would be a cool email tho.

With that money ($100 million) you could get a custom TLD, so you could own x@x.x

I don't think .x is tld. But EM owns x.com, so he could (and may well already have) x@x.com. But I think paying for a name is silly.

With just $185k the ICANN accepts registrations of custom TLDs

Weird that Elon didn't apply for that since he had 44 billion to burn

lol "just email me, my address is xxx"