By Sownn on

Wordpress guys use WP instead of Wordpress in domain

How about Drupal ? Drupal is a registered trademark of Dries Buytaert.
I would like to avoid it on the domain name.

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cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

You mean in the drupal.org site? Why would we want it changed to something unknown?

Besides, wp's domain is wordpress.com. What are you referring to?

You don't need to have anything related to the d-word in your sites.

Sownn’s picture

Sownn commented

I want a well-known short form of Drupal.

for Wordpress, they suggest use WP instead of wordpress.
http://wordpress.org/about/domains

vm’s picture

vm commented

There is no short form for Drupal. Drupal.org is consistently referenced as d.o. and groups.drupal.org as g.d.o but they are the only short forms I am aware of.

I'd venture a guess there won't be either. I can see why, WP works. as wordpress is a compound word. Drupal though, isn't.

Therefore if the keyword in your desire, is "well known" you may be SOL.

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cog.rusty commented

That wordperfect note is trying to protect the "wordperfect" word by telling wp users not to use "wordpress" in their own domain names but only "wp", because they want to reserve the "wordperfect" word only for themselves.

Drupal doesn't have any problem with that, you can use "drupal" or "dp" or anything as a part of your domain names, and other people can use anything they want in theirs.

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WorldFallz commented

you can use "drupal" or "dp" or anything as a part of your domain names

It would seem that is no longer the case: http://groups.drupal.org/node/15023

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keith.smith commented

Drupal doesn't have any problem with that, you can use "drupal" or "dp" or anything as a part of your domain names, and other people can use anything they want in theirs.

I'm not sure this is exactly true, especially in regard to the use of the trademarked "drupal" as part of a domain name. There is a good discussion (and draft trademark policy) here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/15023, which says, in part: "This trademark policy describes licensable uses of the Drupal trademark owned, licensed or controlled by Dries Buytaert. [...] You need to apply for a written license if you are using the term "Drupal" as part of your own trademark or brand identifier, regardless of whether the Product is commercial or not. This includes use in: [...] domain names (abcdrupal.com), web site names (ABC Drupalzone), [...]." (emphasis added)

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cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

You are right of course, I missed that.

Then something like DRU would be fine, I guess, since DP draws a blank.

Or, more ambitiously, D. (That can't be trademarked, I think.)

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silverwing commented

Yeah, um, you don't have to have any link back to drupal.org on your site. (In fact, Drupal is one of the only CMS' that doesn't have the link coded into default themes - as far as I know.)

~silverwing

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