I Don’t Understand How Domain Names Are ‘Taken’

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  goldbubbleclothing · Member · Jul 29, 2020 at 7:35 am

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  Hello!
  I would love some help trying to understand how some domains are coming up as taken, but if I type that URL into my browser, the location doesn’t exist.

  For example, I have a store on the domain http://www.goldbubbleclothing.com. So I wanted to have a blog subdomain that was blog.goldbubbleclothing.com here on WordPress. But it’s showing as taken. How is that possible?

  Help, pretty please D:

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Jul 30, 2020 at 10:13 am

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  Hi there,

  To be able to use that subdomain, you’ll need to map it as explained here:

  https://wordpress.com/support/domains/map-subdomain/

  Did you see the message that the domain was taken during this process?

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  goldbubbleclothing · Member · Aug 3, 2020 at 4:56 pm

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  Hey fresatomica!

  Yes, on step one when it asks me to type in the domain I want to use, it tells me it’s already taken. And I’m confused as to how it could already be taken. Do I own it without knowing it because I own the main domain already?

  I own goldbubbleclothing.com, and want to create a new domain of blog.goldbubbleclothing.com

  Is “blog.goldbubbleclothing.com” a subdomain by default?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Aug 3, 2020 at 7:40 pm

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  Subdomains cannot be created here.

  You’ll need to start by first creating the subdomain under your hosting provider, consult their documentation for specifics.

  Once the subdomain exists, you can map it following https://wordpress.com/support/domains/map-subdomain/

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  goldbubbleclothing · Member · Aug 7, 2020 at 4:39 am

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  Thanks macmanx!

  That’s helped me understand everything a little more.