Please explain the 'dotcom' as part of the blog name

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  evanrm · Member · Oct 5, 2011 at 1:19 am

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  Hi,
  I registered tales-from-the-city as a paid domain, but I notice that there are two blogs registered:
  tales-from-the-city.com
  and
  talesfromthecitydotcom.wordpress.com

  Can you please explain what is going on here? Is this how WordPress maps domains? Most importantly, is my tales-from-the-city.com domain up and running?

  Thanks,
  Evan
  Blog url: http://talesfromthecitydotcom.wordpress.com/

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  designsimply · Member · Oct 5, 2011 at 2:16 am

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  The “dotcom” is added when you try to purchase a domain name from the sign up page and the matching blog name is already setup.

  The WordPress.com blog name and the custom domain name don’t need to match to work.

  I checked http://tales-from-the-city.com/ just now, and it is working for me and looks good to go. :)