I’m the admin and moderator at discourse.biologos.org , a popular discussion site about faith and science connected to www.biologos.org . I was wondering whether there’s any legal issues with the site title using the word “Discourse”, and us referring to the page informally as the “Discourse” page. Wh…

Yes, using discourse.example.com is perfectly valid. The point of contention is, could a reasonable person look at this and confuse it with what we do at www.discourse.org ? Certainly not true if you are merely picking the URL discourse.example.com .

From a “usability” point-of-view (or SEO) I would vote against naming something after the technology it uses. Instead I would use a term that expresses the content/intention of the website. E.g. our community-URL is named “community.zeta-producer.com”. So I would recommend to give the user and Go…

[image] uwe_keim: I would vote against naming something after the technology it uses Discourse has an English definition that fits what it does: [image] It is a bit of a “fancy” word in English, though, so I don’t generally recommend it.

Is it OK to use the word "Discourse" in the name of our Discourse-hosted discussion board?

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Sander78 (Sander Datema) June 8, 2015, 9:09pm 2

Well, discourse is an English word that you could use where you want I suppose.

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Is it OK to use the word "Discourse" in the name of our Discourse-hosted discussion board?

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