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Discourse's Third Birthday

Jeff Atwood

• 1 min read

As of today, it's been three years since we launched Discourse as a public project.

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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

The domain was previously owned by Educational Testing Services, aka the non-profit company behind the SAT and ACT college entrance exams. If you're curious what used to be there, check out the wayback machine. That domain went permanently offline in 2006.

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We've had no issues with being discourse.org for the last three years, but we're proud to now carry the concept of Discourse forward on the web under the hallowed dot-com banner — free, modern open-source discussion software available to any community that needs it.