Can't create blog with *.art/code/photo.blog subdomain

remontowyblog820 · Member · Oct 25, 2022 at 12:13 pm
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I can’t create a new blog with the .art.blog subdomain (and other types .code.blog, photo.blog, etc). Every time, it only shows me the availability with the domain *.home.blog and nothing else. Even though I’m typing the entire site address.
julinedossantos1 · Staff · Oct 25, 2022 at 1:40 pm
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Hello,

The .com, .art and .blog are already domain extensions. You cannot have two extensions (.art.blog ).

Try using mynewblog365 and search, the options mynewblog365.blog, mynewblog365.art among others will appear.

You can also use it like this: mynewblog365art (without the dot) and the option mynewblog365art.blog will appear.

Let me know if it worked.
julinedossantos1 · Staff · Oct 25, 2022 at 1:45 pm
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You only need to buy the domain. The subdomain has a textual element before the main domain, for example,
art.mynewblog365.blog, or photo.mynewblog365.blog

More information:
https://wordpress.com/support/domains/connect-subdomain/
remontowyblog820 · Member · Oct 25, 2022 at 1:46 pm
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I didn’t mean first-level domains like *.blog or *.art. Just free subdomains provided by wordpress.com.

Announcing Free .blog Subdomains

Only *.home.blog works for me at the moment.
julinedossantos1 · Staff · Oct 25, 2022 at 1:57 pm
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I understand your doubt.
Thanks for sharing more details.
I’m tagging the WordPress team to help us out.
Soon they respond.
staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Oct 26, 2022 at 1:51 am
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Hi,

If you visit:

Home

…and scroll down to click the “Create Your . Art . Blog” link. What happens?
remontowyblog820 · Member · Oct 26, 2022 at 3:10 am
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The same: https://i.postimg.cc/8P0gDKqc/logo.jpg
supernovia · Staff · Oct 26, 2022 at 3:13 am
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Hi! I think the current signup flow won’t _recommend_ other subdomains, but if you type the name you want and it’s available, you can choose that option.

If you want to test whether it’s available beforehand, just go to thesiteaddress.art.blog — if it redirects to art.blog, the name is probably available.

I hope this helps!
remontowyblog820 · Member · Oct 27, 2022 at 4:58 am
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It still doesn’t work. It is very annoying.
themagicrobot · Member · Oct 27, 2022 at 8:01 am
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None of the extensions listed at
https://wordpress.com/blog/2018/11/28/announcing-free-dotblog-subdomains/ are available to me either apart from home.blog. I tried via “add a site” so I don’t know if new users would face the same issue as they appear to create sites via a different “flow” to existing accounts. (Although new users are unlikely to know of the existance of all those subdomains. And the subdomains aren’t included in the “filter” dropdown which would be helpful but of course I understand the desire to steer people towards paid options).
fstat · Staff · Oct 27, 2022 at 9:22 am
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Hi, I’ve let our developers know about this, and I’ll update you here once I hear back from them.
fstat · Staff · Oct 27, 2022 at 12:33 pm
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This has been fixed. You can now create an address using any of those .blog subdomains.
remontowyblog820 · Member · Oct 27, 2022 at 1:08 pm
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Thank you. Its works :)
staff-zinnia · Staff · Oct 27, 2022 at 2:46 pm
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Be sure to write back if you need any further help.

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