There's another big problem with Elon Musk's Twitter rebrand: Microsoft owns the trademark to the title "X." In a word: lol.
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That’s… not how that works.
The brand isn’t “x.com” either, it’s “X”. They don’t even use x.com as a domain.
Even if it was x.com, a video game being called Xcom wouldn’t be close enough to the website x.com to be able to be confused. It would be different if they both were websites.

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x.com is up and running now (redirect to twitter.com), used to be a GoDaddy placeholder just yesterday.

They do plan to switch to the x.com domain and already own it.

I thought elon owns x.com?

Yup. Owned personally since 2017. It was his also around 2000, but he got kicked out and the domain was then owned by Paypal.

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