Our Story

Planet Ottawa™ initially started out as a searchable online web directory originally established in 1996 and created and founded by Greg Luchak. The first domain, PlanetOttawa.com™, was registered in 1997. The sites main purpose was tourism with a focus on a local company directory. Planet Ottawa was the first in the city to have free classifieds. It started out well with a few hundred customers. Unfortunately, the decision at that time to match eBay's auction format was made and interest fell off and the classifieds never recovered. Being that our business model was advertising driven we had little success. In the early days of the web "free everything" was expected. However we continued to maintain the website for almost two decades. During that time we served clients with web design and management services until we shut the website down.

We always loved the name Planet Ottawa™. The idea to take up the challenge to create a T-shirt company, promoted by Shopify back in 2016, seemed like a cool idea. Since we have always wanted to create a brand and product line that the Nation's Capital could be proud of, Greg created The Planet Ottawa Clothing Company™ and online store front. The clothing line was temporarily suspended during early development but we now have new product lines that are being developed. In accordance with these changes we have gone back to our roots and reduced the name back to just Planet Ottawa™. Planet Ottawa has become the exclusive storefront of The Greg Luchak Show but is wide open to any individual or company that would like to syndicate their marketing and exclusive content on our platform.

The Ottawa community consists of major sports clubs like the Ottawa Senators™, the Red Blacks™, Ottawa 67's™, and the Ottawa Fury FC™. To the Arts such as our renowned NAC and local theater companies. World class restaurants and historic landmarks, epic scenery and architecture such as Parliament Hill, Sparks Street, the Market, Little Italy, Chinatown and countless museums throughout the city to the multi-cultural fabric that makes up our tremendously unique city and surrounding communities.

Now our city also has PlanetOttawa.ca, The Greg Luchak Show, and our unique project The Planet Purple Project™.

Visit The Planet Purple Project™ for more details on how you can share in our purpose to bring hope to the world

The Planet Ottawa Team