Nodesk.com becomes oDesk.com
Anyone who has ever tried to name a company knows how difficult it can be to find a name and a matching available URL, let alone one that you and your business partner like.
I got a kick out of this IM thread between oDesk co-founders Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakis that chronicles the selection of “oDesk.com”.
(August 31, 2002)
OT – …how about nodesk.com? [Ed. note - Odysseas had worked with an outsourcing firm called "nostaff" while with a previous company.]
SK – sure, that sounds like a positive name for a company
OT – I bet people have taken the odesk.com …sh*t its still available
SK – odesk is no good, look for idesk or edesk..
OT – You won’t believe but almost every other letter is taken for *desk unless if you prefer fdesk.com
SK – I still don’t like it..
OT – you would have liked it if it were sdesk
SK – har har..
OT – We can stick a globe instead of the O you know
SK – .
OT – Or we can make it 0desk (zerodesk.)
SK – stop it
OT – I am taking it and when you find a better one we change it….
And we didn’t even need to pay $7.5 million for our URL.
Wow that’s cool! You know in those heady days I couldn’t find VirtualCity or VirtualSoft (my company names) so I settled for http://www.virtualciti.com
(S)o, that’s the story… hehe…
BTW, vinette, your choice of “citi” could actually get you in trouble with “citibank”…
Sorry, logged back after many days.. but it seems not too many are interested in history
Well, Nasir, virtualciti is a different name from citibank, don’t tell me that “google” won’t even let you “oogle” with any other word
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