No, nor did we - but hats off to the Daily Telegraph for discovering that little known fact, plus several others, to mark this month's 15th anniversary of the portal which (some) agents love to hate.
Since the Millennium it has promoted around one million properties at an estimated value of £270 billion.
The Telegraph's Anna White has unveiled the little-known facts in a light-hearted anniversary piece which is behind the paywall, but which we have revealed below.
Here they are:
- Rightmove is a more popular search term than the pop band, One Direction, according to Google Trends.
- Rightmove was meant to be called 'Doorknob.'
- The first ever Rightmove advert featured Arsenal legend, Ian Wright, in the bath with a shower cap and a loofer.
- The property that received the biggest number of hits so far was completely purple, and racked up over 3m in 2013.
- There have been eight weddings between Rightmove colleagues over the past 15 years.
- Since launch there have been 3,711 pubs for sale on Rightmove. If yout visited one pub per day it would turn into an epic, 10-year pub crawl.
- Monday and Tuesday nights are the busiest times of the week for househunters trawling Rightmove.
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They still are referred to a similar name - we just dropped the 'door' bit
trust me... it WAS! ;o)
If RM are beating One Direction in Google searches, what chance do OTM and the rest really have
[quote]The first ever Rightmove advert featured Arsenal legend, Ian Wright, in the bath with a shower cap and a loofer.[/quote]
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Their current adverts are a bit naff - show me a property ad that isn't - so Wrighty in a bath would probably be a masterpiece in comparison!
Love them or loathe them, you can't deny their success.
[quote]Rightmove was meant to be called 'Doorknob.'[/quote]
Blimey, they dodged a bullet there, didn't they What a terrible, terrible name that would have been.