Hola,
estoy confundido sobre qué es qué. Así que aquí va: ¿cuál es la diferencia entre esto:
y el foro en el que estoy ahora?
Gracias.
Hola @ondrej,
Communiteq (anteriormente DiscourseHosting) es una empresa diferente de discourse.org.
Ambas ofrecemos alojamiento para el software Discourse, pero discourse.org también es la empresa que crea el software Discourse.
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, entonces, ¿cómo Communiteq (anteriormente DiscourseHosting) utiliza la palabra “Discourse” en el nombre de dominio? No soy abogado, ayúdame a entenderlo 
@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.
Veo que muchos sitios utilizan marcas registradas, como androidforums.com o iphoneforums.net. iPhone y Android son marcas registradas. Puedes encontrar muchos ejemplos similares.
Considero que es una mala idea usar marcas registradas, pero esa es mi opinión.
Esto es lo que dice Jeff…
https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-discourse-trademarked/8681/2?u=sat
Nuevamente, no soy abogado, pero podría haber alguna forma… por eso Communiteq (anteriormente DiscourseHosting) utiliza “discourse” en su nombre de dominio.
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 