luke.___.wordpress.com as referer, what does that mean ?

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  assas · Member · Oct 9, 2015 at 4:58 pm

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  Hi,

  The French forum sent me here to ask my question again.
  For a few days, I see “luke.assas.wordpress.com” as referer, as my blog is just “assas.wordpress.com”. If I click on the link with “luke”, I see my blog and I can admin it.

  I found that a “lukeassas.wordpress.com” exists. But without “.” after “luke”. And it’s really another blog.

  So what happens ?

  Thanks for your help.

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

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  shawnajroberts · Member · Oct 10, 2015 at 12:15 am

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  Hello! It’s possible that someone mistyped your URL in their browser and then clicked on something on the site that loaded (which is actually yours). We’d see it as a ‘referrer’ since the URL doesn’t technically match your own.

  Hope this helps clarify what happened here. Let me know if you have questions!

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  assas · Member · Oct 10, 2015 at 5:10 am

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  Hi,

  Yes, you’re right, maybe it occurred as you say.
  But the question is : why the URL “luke.assas.wordpress.com” exists, works and gives access to the blog “assas.wordpress.com” ?

  I tried to add “luke” to others blog.worpress.com URL and it works too.

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 10, 2015 at 5:26 am

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  One of the other staff said it was a “feature” in the way the address system works – same base blog but when someone adds extra stuff to the address it still goes to the base blog – – yes real strange and confusing and I had to ask a couple of times about the URL that did not look like is should have worked