` :::::::::::*Sorry, but Wikipedia disagrees with you, and so does the US Government in the person of the Securities and Exchange Commission!  ::::::::::::``The X.com company was then renamed PayPal in 2001``. That's a quote from Wikipedia's PayPal article. The article references PayPal's own history which states that (1) in March 2000 ``Confinity merges with X.com, taking on its company name`` and (2) in June 2001 ``PayPal officially takes its name: X.com officially changes its name to PayPal, to match the name of its most popular product.`` I'd say that was pretty conclusive. But there's more... ::::::::::::Your comments about X.com and Confinity becoming part of PayPal represents a complete misunderstanding of how company law works. A company is a legal entity: there were two entities and then one of them was swallowed by the other and ceased to exist. If you're not sure about that just check the SEC here. This site is the definitive record so there's no getting round what it says. It shows TWO companies called PayPal, not one. PayPal Funds Inc was formerly X.com Funds and is, essentially, a bagman for PayPal Inc. And this document supplied by shareholders states that ``PayPal, Inc. resulted from a merger between Confinity, Inc.... and X.com Corporation``. As for the name change, the document states that ``We incorporated as X.com Corporation in March 1999... On March 30, 2000, X.com merged with Confinity, Inc., with X.com as the surviving entity... We formally changed our name to PayPal, Inc. in February 2001.`` So there you have it, from the horse's mouth and accepted as fact by the SEC: X.Com Inc swallowed Confinity Inc which ceased to exist. Some time later X.Com became PayPal Inc. X.Com's financial infrastructure became PayPal's financial infrastructure. It would be misleading in the extreme to say anything else.    `