Domain name with dashes

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  rseastman · Member · Mar 12, 2009 at 7:32 pm

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  My current URL on wordpress.com is robteastman.wordpress.com. I bought another domain name from GoDaddy that has dashes in the name. I was hoping to be able to use it on wordpress.com, only to find out, of course that I cannot, because of the dashes. If I register another blog at WordPress.com, excluding dashes in the name, does it do me any good, and is there a good or better way for me to reference or tag the dash-equipped URL somewhere in my new blog at WordPress.com? Is there any way for me to leverage the dash-equipped domain name that I got from GoDaddy? Thanks for any suggestions that you have.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 12, 2009 at 8:22 pm

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  I would contact support directly on this. I was thinking that you could domain map to a domain name with dashes. Include all the details.

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  rseastman · Member · Mar 12, 2009 at 9:35 pm

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  thesacredpat: – answer from Support is ‘no’ – no dashes allowed in the domain name.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 13, 2009 at 12:26 am

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  Hmmm, I knew that was the case with the blogname.wordpress.com blog URL’s, but I didn’t know it applied to mapped domains as well.

  Thanks for posting the answer.