# Discourse's Third Birthday
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-third-birthday/39106
**Category:** Blog
**Created:** [February 5, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-third-birthday/39106 "2016-02-05T17:18:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-third-birthday/39106/1 "2016-02-05T17:18:37Z")
As of today, it’s been three years since we launched Discourse as a public project. How time flies when you’re having fun! As birthday present, I’m pleased to announce that as of this morning – literally, this morning – we now own our domain name: [discourse.com](http://discourse.com) The domain was previously owned by Educational Testing Services,…
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This topic is for comments on the original blog entry at: [Discourse’s Third Birthday](http://blog.discourse.org/2016/02/discourses-third-birthday/)
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-third-birthday/39106/2 "2016-02-05T17:26:39Z")
Happy Birthday! 🎊 🎁 🎊
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-third-birthday/39106/3 "2016-02-05T17:44:17Z")
Happy birthday! I feeling old coming from the red/blue pill days.
It’s good to have the .com domain name, but I’d argue the general cultural expectation is for an open source project to run under a .org domain. 🙂
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### Author:  [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-third-birthday/39106/4 "2016-02-05T18:00:32Z")
Congratulations to the entire team!
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### Author:  [@alefattorini](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alefattorini)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2016, 7:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-third-birthday/39106/5 "2016-02-05T19:18:59Z")
Congrats guys!
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### Author:  [@Alankrit\_Choudh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alankrit_Choudh)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-third-birthday/39106/6 "2016-02-05T19:26:54Z")
Congratulations to the discourse team.
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### Author:  [@iKJames](https://meta.discourse.org/u/iKJames)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-third-birthday/39106/7 "2016-02-07T17:56:55Z")
In this case they could be more like WordPress and move the hosting portion over to the .com
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### Author:  [@ccdw](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ccdw)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-third-birthday/39106/8 "2016-02-07T20:13:05Z")
3 and you’re running already. 😄
Well done guys.
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### Author:  [@youderian](https://meta.discourse.org/u/youderian)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-third-birthday/39106/9 "2016-02-07T21:01:05Z")
Congratulations! Can’t tell you how excited I am about the Discourse project. We’ve been biding our time on our current forum, but can’t wait to make the jump when then time is right with our community and tech resources. Congrats on 3 amazing years and thanks for all the team does.
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### Author:  [@mbybee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbybee)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-third-birthday/39106/10 "2016-02-11T17:45:09Z")
That’s wonderful! Thanks so much, as always, for Discourse.
My absolute favorite forum software 😄
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### Author:  [@Shadow\_Shifter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Shadow_Shifter)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-third-birthday/39106/11 "2016-02-11T17:55:31Z")
Happy (late) Birthday Discourse!Now just 359 more days till next time!
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### Author:  [@Shadow\_Shifter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Shadow_Shifter)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-third-birthday/39106/12 "2016-02-11T17:56:19Z")
Words of wisdom Bill Murray.Words of wisdom…
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### Author:  [@Huggingfluffybear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Huggingfluffybear)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-third-birthday/39106/13 "2016-02-11T19:24:09Z")
Happy late birthday!
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### Author:  [@rubydoob](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rubydoob)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-third-birthday/39106/14 "2016-03-08T18:08:22Z")
Wow great news, in my opinion the .org always felt a bit weird.
@codinghorror I guess you don’t publish #'s for a reason but I thought I would ask. How many sites are you guys hosting?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-third-birthday/39106/15 "2016-03-08T22:43:00Z")
Around three hundred to four hundred at the moment.