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If it were registered it would have a ® next to it. So no, it probably isn't registered but that does not mean Phillips Data, Inc. does not hold a legal trademark ™ on it. Again they legally hold a trademark ™ on it as long as they can prove that they held their trademark prior to use by public/others. Public is in reference to common words/terms/phrases which "blesta" is not, it is obviously unique, so that leads to others which includes individuals and businesses using/referencing the term/word. Otherwise any use, reference, etc. requires their express consent or they can pursue legal action. I think your original post was in reference to a post on WHT about a domain sale/appraisal. The simple answer is that anyone can own/hold the registration of a domain name even if it contains a trademark registered or not. Legal precedent says that they hold/own the registration of the domain not the name itself. Using the domain for business (active site) would require the consent of Phillips Data, Inc. or the content of the site would have to be unrelated to the original trademark and the owner/operator of the domain and site could also be legally required to place a notice of non-affiliation. Really just ask Phillips Data, Inc. if you can use their trademark. Open a support ticket, email, or even call them. In most cases businesses wont mind as long as the use is not by a competing product/service or defamatory.

We would be happy to test it on our infrastructure. We can't use blesta in production until the bootstrap framework is integrated, but we've also been waiting for a proxmox module for quite some time. We invested heavily in new modules, updates to existing modules, and a development platform for another billing system and that plan has fallen apart over the last few months. To top it off that billing system (no need to mention the name) has been exploited many times over the last few weeks. Our WAF protected our development environment from all exploit attempts so far but we are not going to wait until an exploit is released that we are not protected from no matter how unlikely that may seem. If you can come up with something basic that we can launch on we would be willing to redirect our investment towards blesta to push/sponsor development of additional needed features.

You and whoever else is nagging about this needs to look into trademark law. Anyone can trademark ™ anything just like a copyright. It is up to the creator/holder of the trademark to protect the IP (intellectual property). This usually entails a cease and desist and if further action is required a lawsuit. Also just like a copyright in most countries a trademark can be registered ® with the respective national trademark office. This adds additional protection under the respective countries trademark/copy/IP protection laws which usually includes a fine, possible jail time, and may also include additional charges of fraud when/if misrepresenting the trademark. This knowledge is very basic when it comes to business administration/law. If you and others from this so called "famous forum" don't understand this you really need to rethink your business strategy.