If you use IU Framework, IU has you covered in the branding department. If you go with another option and want your site IU branded, you can download assets and find guidelines IU Brand Guidelines.

Go to IU Brand Guidelines

All sites must adhere to copyright and trademark laws, so be certain that any language, logos, photos, or artwork you use within your site are either original to you, appropriately purchased, part of the public domain, or documented permission for your use has been granted.

Indiana University has strict rules specific to student organizations that extend to website use, no matter where or how that website is created. You can find complete student organization information at the IU Division of Student Affairs. Be sure to read the student organization page and Student Organization Handbook and work with your organization’s faculty or staff advisor.

Most O’Neill student organizations (maybe all) do not qualify to use “Indiana University” or “IU” before their organizational name and no one outside of specific IU offices is authorized to create any logos using the trademarked block IU.

Any outside website that is affiliated with O’Neill must:

• Portray O’Neill in a positive and professional way
• Clearly link back to the O’Neill website
• Not solicit funding or sell merchandise
• Not contain admissions information or otherwise portray themselves as an IU admissions or O’Neill applications-related site
• Use the standard O’Neill lock up, if a logo is used, without alteration. Custom O’Neill logos are not permitted.

All entities and groups should follow the policies below to make Marketing and IT aware of your site.

If you are using the main O’Neill website or the IU Framework, you may skip this section.

To obtain a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for your website, we encourage you to follow the guidelines explained below. If you need something outside of these options, please contact us.

Custom domains that do not fit into any of the above policies should follow these guidelines:

• A custom IU domain can be obtained via SPEABITS, and will look something like http://myspeadepartment.indiana.edu.
• Alternatively, a GO URL can be created on an ad-hoc basis such as http://go.iu.edu/3g6, or a custom GO URL can be requested, such as to http://go.iu.edu/spea.
• If you feel you must have an external domain, the only allowed top level domain (TLD) is .info. Thus a domain similar to http://myspeaproject.info could be requested.

Read IU's policies on domain names

As per the policy above, no .com/.org/.net/.biz or others are allowed.

Your unit or project must follow the procedures below with regards to your domain.

You must make provisions to store the external login credentials for the management of this domain in a shared space for your team. We highly recommend that you also send this info to SPEABITS as a backup store of these credentials.

We do not recommend, fund, or support external domains, but if the need is there we can assist.