Overmortal: Choosing a Name
Some people have asked us over the years why we chose the name Overmortal for our company, and what exactly the term means.
Overmortal is actually a play off of the Friedrich Nietzsche term "overman" from Nietzsche's concept of man versus overman.
When thoughts on a name for this company began to circulate, "overman" was one of the suggestions. Most of the domain names using "overman" were already taken, so we started to think about variations of it. I'm not exactly sure how we got to "overmortal" but when the name was first spoken, it had a nice ring to it; and being a bunch of science and technology geeks, we all sort of the liked the idea of mortal versus "more than mortal" in the same vein as Nietzsche's man versus overman.
The name stuck. It had a nice sound to like, and the marketing buff's liked the promise of creating a viable and recognizable brand out of it. And althought overmortal.com was unavailable at the time, we settled on overmortal.net for the domain name - eventually purchasing the overmortal.com variation when the previous owner had let it expire.
So there you go - plain and simple - the reason behind choosing "Overmortal."
