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By: Using WordPress in Your Domain Name? Don’t! « Lorelle on WordPress

Using WordPress in Your Domain Name? Don’t! « Lorelle on WordPress — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:47:06 +0000

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By: Linus Bohman

Linus Bohman — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:11:08 +0000

Ooh. Now that’s an interesting read – I’ll have to do some more research to decide if I should switch before I get to far in on my recent project. This was, after all, some time ago.

LEGO does the same thing too, though trademark dilution is much more prominent for them than for WordPress. There’s to this date only one unofficial LEGO site that is allowed (by the LEGO Company) to have the term LEGO in it. Others use the term brick instead, much like WP instead of WordPress.

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:55:45 +0000

I have a few of these as well. Not worried about it though. I’ll do the right thing by WordPress, as they’ve been very cool about the whole situation so far.

Anything with “wp” should be fine.

By: Janardhanaya

Janardhanaya — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:51:24 +0000

Thank you for your help!

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Il trademark di Joomla — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:48:23 +0000

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By: theoiproject

theoiproject — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:51:08 +0000

Trademark dilution is what I was referring to. As I was thinking of other examples I found the article over at wordpressgarage that breaks it down pretty good.

By: Thassius Veloso

Thassius Veloso — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:45:22 +0000

Nowadays that’s a necessary action. WordPress must protect their own trademark. But I don’t think they will start closing every single blog or site that talks about WP.

Fansites are normal, and some of them create a positive buzz for the companies, like this WP Candy.

By: yay! monday!

yay! monday! — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:57:07 +0000

wp as a prefix seems fair enough and kinda cool seeing as all the directories in a wordpress install are prefixed the same.

By: Samuel

Samuel — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:01:02 +0000

Anyway, I think that it’s a bit contradictory and confusing that a GPL app pays attention to logo/trademarks issues.

It’s like saying “Hey guys! talk anywhere about my app and use it a lot!, even contribute to it!!. But please, dont use wordpress word in your domain even if you want to call your site ‘wordpresslovers.com’.

I dont think that simply by put “wordpress” word in a domain people get confused or thinks that is an official WP site.

There are a lot of GPL apps having their contributors/fans the name of the app in the domain, and WP is the first case that I know (from some time ago) about claiming not to use their app name in the domain.

Maybe the difference is that WP is managed by a company

IMHO ofcourse

By: Keishon

Keishon — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:43:53 +0000

I agree with Cal as well, users must differentiate between what’s a official Word Press site vs. somebody else who is using the name for their own personal site. It’s common sense, simple as that.