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Domains<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

For various reasons related to our WordPress trademark, we ask if you\u2019re going to start a site about WordPress or related to it that you not<\/strong> use \u201cWordPress\u201d in the domain name. Try using \u201cwp\u201d instead, or another variation. We\u2019re not lawyers, but very good ones tell us we have to do this to preserve our trademark. Also, many users have told us they find it confusing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you already have a domain with \u201cWordPress\u201d in it, redirecting it to the \u201cwp\u201d equivalent is fine, just as long as the main one users see and you promote doesn\u2019t contain \u201cWordPress\u201d and in the long term you should consider transferring the old one to the Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWordPress\u201d in sub-domains is fine, like wordpress.example.com<\/code>, we\u2019re just concerned about top-level domains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve told this to anyone who has ever asked us, we just wanted to make it public so more people could be aware of this policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re seeing other domains using WordPress, and they\u2019re not WordPress.com, WordPress.net, WordPress.org, WordPress.tv, or WordPressFoundation.org, they\u2019re not allowed. You should contact the owner and reference this page. We see this most frequently with spammy sites distributing plugins and themes with malware in them. By calling them out, you\u2019re helping protect the integrity of the project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Domains For various reasons related to our WordPress trademark, we ask if you\u2019re going to start a site about WordPress or related to it that you not use \u201cWordPress\u201d in the domain name. Try using \u201cwp\u201d instead, or another variation. We\u2019re not lawyers, but very good ones tell us we have to do this to preserve our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5911429,"featured_media":0,"parent":97,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-domains","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-100","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ga.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ga.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ga.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ga.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5911429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ga.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ga.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/ga.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions\/151"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ga.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ga.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}