In 2001 we started our Internet forum, called "QeX". Letters Q and X has been chosen by my friend Pavel, because those two are the only letters in Czech language, which you can't pronounce as a single letter.
Domain "qx.cz" was already taken, but I remember we saw it available when we looked for the first time couple weeks before. So we decided to put "e" in between (for better pronunciation, to make a word out of it) and, as a remembrance of the original idea, we kept "Q" and "X" uppercase.
In 2006 I discovered a leetspeak and at that time I was looking for available short ".net" domain, which serves better for Internet stuff. I tried to convert "qex" into leet and I got "q3x". I tried different pronunciations and then it hit me: "Q-tri-X" - sounds like "Matrix". So I registered q3x.net. I saved this name for my emerging project.
One day I tried various speech plugins in different languages, like Google Translate or Text-to-Speech in Windows, and I found out, that transcription as "qetrix" sounded quite the same in all major languages, which was my wish for project name. Since then I used "qetrix" much more often.
I always wanted a ".com" domain, because it's the most common TLD and it's somehow the best choice for a new startup. I already pronounced "q3x" as "qetrix", and to my delight (but not a surprise) "qetrix" was TLD-wide available. It took me just a few secs to decide and I claimed generous amount of TLDs :)
I kept q3x.net a primary and all qetrix.* redirected to it. Almost a year later I decided to use "qetrix.com" as primary and everything else as redirect.
And this way the word "QetriX" was born.
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