Hallo,
ich bin verwirrt, was was ist. Also hier geht es weiter: Was ist der Unterschied zwischen diesem:
und dem Discourse, auf dem ich mich gerade befinde?
Vielen Dank.
Hallo @ondrej,
Communiteq (ehemals DiscourseHosting) ist ein anderes Unternehmen als discourse.org.
Wir bieten beide Hosting für die Discourse-Software an, aber discourse.org ist auch das Unternehmen, das die Discourse-Software entwickelt.
Ohh so you provide same software under different company?
Yes. We (discourse.org) develop the Discourse software alongside the community here on meta. Anyone can download the Discourse software for free and host it themselves.
@ondrej, kind of, Discourse is open source, you can tweak and play around to host it yourself on your own server, or use the https://www.discourse.org/ service so they host it and maintain it for you.
@j.jaffeux, @david so it means anyone can use word discourse in domain name(like discourse.business or discourse.center or any other domain extension) and provide discourse platform hosting service, right?
Lawyer for CDCK (discourse.org) here.
You should speak to a (different) lawyer about legal rights to use a name in business. In the US that is a “trademark” kind of legal conversation, though most general business lawyers will be plenty able to have it, not just trademark specialists.
@kemitchell, wie nutzt also Communiteq (ehemals DiscourseHosting) das Wort „Discourse
@sat, I am not your lawyer. I’m afraid you’ll need to do a bit of background reading, or find a lawyer who can help you.
I dont need lawyer 
I was just curious about this so asked you.
I am not a lawyer.
I am a full time consultant who makes a living supporting, installing, and migrating data to discourse.
I have been advised not to use discourse in my domain name, though that person wasn’t a lawyer.
I think that a lawyer would be likely to tell you that if you wanted to start a business with the discourse software that you’d be better off not using Discourse in the name. if you have a business that is about conversation analysis that using Discourse in the name would be just fine.
I bet that allowing a competing company to use the name happened before hiring the lawyer.
Ich sehe, dass viele Websites Markennamen verwenden, wie zum Beispiel androidforums.com oder iphoneforums.net. iPhone und Android sind Marken. Man kann viele solche Beispiele finden.
Ich finde es eine schlechte Idee, Markennamen zu verwenden, aber das ist meine persönliche Meinung.
Hier ist, was Jeff dazu sagt…
https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-discourse-trademarked/8681/2?u=sat
Noch einmal: Ich bin kein Anwalt, aber es könnte einen Weg geben… Deshalb verwendet Communiteq (ehemals DiscourseHosting) den Begriff „Discourse
This is completely irrelevant, and totally unrelated to the topic raised in the original post.
Co-founder chiming in here to avoid that we look like a scammer 
because we did consult a lawyer before we went to market.
Even when a name is trademarked, the WIPO (the organization that governs intellectual property) has decided that using it in a domain name is allowed under a few conditions (commonly known as the Oki Data conditions). This is actually a very, very common practice.
The two most important conditions are:
- make sure there is no confusion (hence the too big and too annoying footer on our website)
- do not offer products from competing brands
Of course we meet all four conditions. And like Jeff said: there is no trademark on this English word. There is a trademark on the colored Discourse logo by the way, and using that would be confusing.
@michaeld thanks for clearing this up for me 
@michaeld, good to know that. Thanks for sharing details. I was curious how this works 