Nodesk.com becomes oDesk.com
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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.
Vineet
April 9th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
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
Nasir
July 22nd, 2007 at 6:33 pm
(S)o, that’s the story… hehe…
BTW, vinette, your choice of “citi” could actually get you in trouble with “citibank”…
Vineet
April 7th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
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
oDesk « The Freelanza Blog
September 7th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
[...] oDesk.com is an online service aimed at businesses and individuals that seek to hire and remotely manage freelancers with varying specialties. oDesk Corporation, the company behind this website, is located in Menlo Park in California, and was established by Stratis Karamanlakis and Odysseas Tsatalos. The name “oDesk” connotes the nuance of “no desk“, and its founders even considered 0desk (zerodesk) in its infancy. [...]