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Hello. I recently added paston-cooper.com as one of my domains. I actually wanted to use http://www.paston-cooper.com. Is there any way I can get this changed? I tried adding http://www.paston-cooper.com but it said that hostname has already been taken.
Thanks, Justin.
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Thanks Vivian. Then his answer is found in this thread where Mark explains
There is www and no-www.
When the domain mapping code was written we [sysadmin at wordpress.com] needed to decide which we would use because using both would not be a good idea. We chose the no-www.http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=6185&replies=3#post-39945
This is a no-can-do but certainly nothing to grieve over because the ‘www’ and ‘paston-cooper’ should not coexist within a link like that. According to drmike, 30% of the folks on the internet, as well as, most search engine spiders can’t follow such a link. -
Been trying to figure out how to explain this:
The 30% is when folks have a URL with three names and tack on the ‘www’ to it in addition as a forth.
For example:
http://mydomain.wordpress.com is fine
http://www.mydomain.wordpress.com runs into the problems that some DNS servers have along with the spiders.http://wordpress.com and https://wordpress.com is fine because they don’t use the 4th machine name in there.
The issue is because you actually can use http://www1.mydomain.wordpress.com and http://www2.mydomain.wordpress.com and those would work fine if you had sites there.
It pretains to a bug to the early attempts with load balancing. I’d have to go find the RFC and/ or docs covering it and that’s not somethng that can be looked up easily in a search.
edit: I gotta admit that I myself am torn on the dropping of the ‘www’ bit but only from a SEO position. I had a Google PR of 6 with http://www.tdjc.be When I put in Matt’s plugin to remove the ‘www’ bit, I dropped down to a 4. But the subdomains remained where they were at 4-6. Not a biggie but it is an ego thing.
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