Retaining the www. part of a domain

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  ingramdw · Member · Jun 11, 2014 at 2:57 am

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  If I’ve upgraded to a custom domain, let’s say example.com, then if someone types http://www.example.com into their web browser they end up at example.com. Is there a way to have it remain http://www.example.com? I understand this can be done with the self-hosted version of WordPress, I was wondering if WordPress.com hosted sites can do this too.

  And yes, I know www is so last century.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 11, 2014 at 6:37 am

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  No. www is an antiquated version, which is visible to a smaller group than the non-www version. For this reason, all www version of URLs in WordPress.com forward to the non-www version.