Why is dotcom inside my requested address?

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  kyensen · Member · Sep 15, 2011 at 5:24 am

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  Please remove dotcom from my address. I requested ———-
  dreamingiam.wordpress.com.

  Would actually prefer to pay for hosting —
  dreamingiam.com
  but could not make stick on registration. Please advise.

  KYensen
  New Blogger
  Blog url: http://dreamingiamdotcom.wordpress.com/

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  kardotim · Member · Sep 15, 2011 at 9:14 am

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  It seems your domain isn’t registered yet, could you please try again. You can go to Store > Domains on your blog’s dashboard and follow the steps there.

  Sorry for the inconvenience.

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  kyensen · Member · Sep 16, 2011 at 2:50 am

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  Still confused – sorry! Something funny happened during my original registration.
  When I put in my legitimate gmail address — it stopped me and asked — is this you? I clicked on that, as indicated — then could not tell what was happening behind the scenes. I thought it wouldn’t take my email ————
  so — I made up one that doesn’t exist — (email visible only to moderators and staff).

  Later I went to my gmail account — and there was my registration verification — which I clicked on — but when I went there — it had garbled my chosen name by putting the words ‘dotcom’ in the middle of it.

  Do I need to register completely the one I want —
  dreamingiam.com ——
  before I can get rid of the other one??
  It seems like there are gremlins inside my dashboard that keep reappearing – the fake email still appears, etc. Two different pages come up under ———-
  dreamingiam.wordpress.com
  and
  dreamingiamdotcom.wordpress.com

  What is the simplest way out of this maze, please? Can we kill what’s there and start over????

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  kyensen · Member · Sep 16, 2011 at 3:00 am

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  I am registered now under the name I originally chose.

  Please DELETE the domain listed as ——–
  dreamingiamdotcom.wordpress.com

  Thank you!!

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  evarlese · Member · Sep 16, 2011 at 12:26 pm

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  It looks like dreamingiam.com is mapped to dreamingiamdotcom.wordpress.com. If we delete dreamingiamdotcom.wordpress.com, this will affect your Domain Registration and Mapping upgrade.

  When you map a custom domain to your free, *.wordpress.com URL, no one but you will ever be able to see the underlying URL. However, this underlying URL must exist in order for the mapping to work:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/

  If you have any questions about this, please let us know.