Domains

For various reasons related to our WordPress trademark, we ask if youre going to start a site about WordPress or related to it that you not use WordPress in the domain name. Try using wp instead, or another variation. Were 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.

If you already have a domain with WordPress in it, redirecting it to the wp equivalent is fine, just as long as the main one users see and you promote doesnt contain WordPress and in the long term you should consider transferring the old one to the Foundation.

WordPress in sub-domains is fine, like wordpress.example.com, were just concerned about top-level domains.

Weve 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.

If youre seeing other domains using WordPress, and theyre not WordPress.com, WordPress.net, WordPress.org, WordPress.tv, or WordPressFoundation.org, theyre 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, youre helping protect the integrity of the project.