Site Naming

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  sciencefront · Member · Jul 31, 2017 at 2:16 am

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  I am trying to set up my .com site name with the premium option. I tried a few variations of what I wanted to name it, and it said all of them were taken. I then typed in ‘fdkafldja;f.com’ and it said that was taken as well, which is obviously crazy. Any way you can help me? I am trying to name my site ‘sciencefront.com’

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  timethief · Member · Jul 31, 2017 at 2:22 am

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  You cannot register a URL someone has already registered sciencefront.com is hosted by Google Inc.
  Name Servers:
  ns36.domaincontrol.com
  ns35.domaincontrol.com

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  timethief · Member · Jul 31, 2017 at 2:23 am

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  How domain mapping works
  Registering an underlying .wordpress.com URL first is required for domain mapping. What domain mapping does is providing a seamless redirect to the very same content under the new domain URL when a person clicks the old URL .wordpress.com to the original content. It can take up to 72 hours for domain propagation to take place throughout the internet but it doesn’t usually take that long. https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

  There are 3 ways to add a custom domain to your blog. Please note that an active WordPress.com plan is required to add a custom domain to your site. https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#getting-started

  WordPress.com does not accept domain transfers but mapping an existing domain is possible. http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/ The domain or mapping of any existing domain URL is included in the pricing for a personal upgrade, a premium and a business upgrade. The WordPress.COM upgrade for mapping a domain must be renewed annually.

  WordPress.com does not provide an email service for blogs on their sub domains or on custom domains. Please see these support docs
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/add-email/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/email-forwarding/

  Please go to https://wordpress.com/pricing/ if you wish to upgrade.

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  patilswapnilv · Member · Jul 31, 2017 at 5:02 pm

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  @timethieft has explained most part of it.

  Probably you could not get the ‘fdkafldja;f.com’ domain since you are using ‘;’ in it. It is an invalid name.

  If you had not used the semicolon symbol, you could have found it available. :-)