For example I have my domain "example.com". Is it legal to create "jira.example.com" for my jira software server? I mean can I use word "jira" for my purpose? Thanks for any answers!
Hello All,
That is a great question to ask if you’re able to use an Atlassian trademarked product name within your domain or subdomains URL. The TL;DR is, Yes you are able to use an Atlassian trademarked name within your URL but not within your domain or subdomain. The more detailed answer is as follows:
The following comes from https://www.atlassian.com/legal/trademark
For Our Customers and the General Public Atlassian embraces “fair use” of its trademarks. As such, you may use the foregoing trademarks to identify Atlassian and its family of products, for example, in your website, blog, news article, or product review, without our written consent, as long as you use them without modification or deceptive intent and do not cause a likelihood of confusion between yourself and Atlassian’s brands.
Atlassian embraces “fair use” of its trademarks. As such, you may use the foregoing trademarks to identify Atlassian and its family of products, for example, in your website, blog, news article, or product review, without our written consent, as long as you use them without modification or deceptive intent and do not cause a likelihood of confusion between yourself and Atlassian’s brands.
Domains. Atlassian’s trademarks (or similar terms) should not be used in your domain name. This is misleading because it represents you as Atlassian. You may, however, use Atlassian trademarks in the URL path. Examples of approved third party domains include: vendordomain.com and vendordomain.com/atlassian. Examples of third party domains that are not approved include: atlassian.vendordomain.com, vendordomain.atlassian.com, vendor-atlassian.com, confluence-vendorname.com, and jiraforagile.com.
Grandfathering Atlassian’s Trademark Guidelines were introduced at a point in time when some companies and individuals had already created product names that include the Atlassian trademarks in a manner that does not comply with the Guidelines. Companies and individuals using the Atlassian product trademarks by or before October 1, 2009 will not be required to change their already existing product names to comply with these Guidelines now or in the future. However, we do request that these companies and individuals give proper notice and attribution of the Atlassian trademarks, and that any new product name will follow these guidelines.
Atlassian’s Trademark Guidelines were introduced at a point in time when some companies and individuals had already created product names that include the Atlassian trademarks in a manner that does not comply with the Guidelines. Companies and individuals using the Atlassian product trademarks by or before October 1, 2009 will not be required to change their already existing product names to comply with these Guidelines now or in the future. However, we do request that these companies and individuals give proper notice and attribution of the Atlassian trademarks, and that any new product name will follow these guidelines.
Additionally, if you do have any questions regarding trademarks, it would be best to contact that team directly via email at trademarks@atlassian.com.
I hope this proves helpful and clarifies what you’re able to do with an Atlassian trademarked name within a URL or Domain.
Regards,Stephen Sifers
Atlassian | Senior Support Engineer
Hi @Sergey Turkin
as far I know people do it all the time. But to get clarity I asked Atlassian Team for clarification.
CheersNiklas
Hi @Sergey Turkin / anyone from Atlassian that reads this.
According to https://www.atlassian.com/legal/trademark
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Moreover, your website should look like your website, not ours. It should not borrow heavily from or closely resemble Atlassian's website or web properties. For the sake of customers and consumers, clearly distinguishable websites help everyone.
So by the letter of this, "Examples of third party domains that are not approved include: atlassian.vendordomain.com" - and while the example here is atlassian. - this is just one of the trademarked terms, as is jira/confluence/etc and I know a SIGNIFICANT amount of teams who run this approach.
Atlassian's own documentation about reverse-proxying (https://confluence.atlassian.com/kb/proxying-atlassian-server-applications-with-apache-http-server-mod_proxy_http-806032611.html) suggests you use the application name in the sub-domain, so these two pieces of documentation are at odds with each other.
It would be nice to see a written exception in the Domains saying that $atlassianappname.company.com was permitted if you were running that application there (or similar).
CCM
@Craig Castle-Mead
I think the docs about reverse-proxying are actually targeting on-premise systems which are usually not reachable from outside the company.
Partners and vendors shouldn't use Atlassian or product names at the beginning of a domain name.
Thanks a lot for help! So very short answer is:allowed: example.com/jirarestricted: jira.example.comCorrect me, if I am wrong.
@Sloan N_ B_So it seems like they all do wrong, acording to atlassian document and atlassian team answer written by @Stephen Sifers
Well, I have been browsing here quite a while having exact same query. I have bookmarked this page. will surely read it twice to get this done. I hope this helps. Thanks a lot for sharing this
Regards.
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