How can I start a new blog if it keeps saying I need to use lower case letters

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  melewillow · Member · Oct 10, 2012 at 5:41 am

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  even though I am using lower case letters, it says I’m not. I just want to start a new blog and it won’t let me because of the lower case letters thing, HELP
  Blog url: http://melewillow.wordpress.com/

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 10, 2012 at 5:57 am

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  What is the URL you’re trying to register? The registration process seems to be having some minor fits today. You might be better off waiting a day.

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  melewillow · Member · Oct 10, 2012 at 9:02 pm

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  Thanks, that’s exactly what I am going to do. Please, wordpress people, get the message, new blog registration is not working correctly

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  melewillow · Member · Oct 11, 2012 at 9:28 pm

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  url is art and heart of massage. wordpress.com, but I have tried so many other ones and it keeps saying the same damn thing. only use lower case letters and numbers and I can’t bypass it

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  notawoodpecker · Member · Oct 11, 2012 at 9:42 pm

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  url is art and heart of massage. wordpress.com,

  only use lower case letters and numbers and I can’t bypass it

  What part of ONLY don’t you understand? A blank space is NOT a lower case letter or number. URLs cannot include blank spaces.

  You can try artandheartofmassage.wordpress.com

  Or possibly art_and_heart_of_massage.wordpress.com, but that would be difficult for users to remember and I’m not sure it would even work.

  Another possibility might be art-and-heart-of-massage.wordpress.com, but that might create problems also.

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  notawoodpecker · Member · Oct 11, 2012 at 9:45 pm

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  I have seen URLs with dashes ( – ) . I’ve even registered one with a single dash, but never with more than one. I don’t know if they will accept underscores ( _ ) or not.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Oct 11, 2012 at 9:52 pm

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  Have you seen .wordpress.com URL with a dash in it? I haven’t.
  What works is:
  lower case alphabet letters
  no special characters
  no punctuation
  no spaces

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  notawoodpecker · Member · Oct 11, 2012 at 10:11 pm

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  I know you can do it as a top level domain.

  I don’t know if you can do it as a sub-domain of wordpress.com. If not, that would be a restriction put in place by WordPress.

  I do know that blank spaces cannot be used in any instance.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Oct 11, 2012 at 10:21 pm

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  I know you can do it as a top level domain. I do know that blank spaces cannot be used in any instance.

  Me too.

  I don’t know if you can do it as a sub-domain of wordpress.com. If not, that would be a restriction put in place by WordPress.

  I don’t know if it is a restriction or not so I’ll flag this thread for a Staff clarification.

  timethief (posting under her other username account)

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 11, 2012 at 11:04 pm

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  Anyway, problem solved. Don’t use spaces.

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  melewillow · Member · Oct 12, 2012 at 10:33 pm

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  Mahalo, that’s thanks in Hawaiian.