Why no www in the url?

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  avacuumonthe2ndfloor · Member · Sep 11, 2008 at 11:24 pm

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  Hi WordPress People,

  I’ve just purchased a new url at WordPress and had my blog run from that, but it reads http://url.com rather than http://www.url.com

  Is there a reason for this? Can I have www in there? I’ve tried in IE but it’s dead. Won’t new visitors be put off by the lack of a www?

  Thanks,
  M

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  teck07 · Member · Sep 11, 2008 at 11:29 pm

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  WordPress doesn’t allow the WWW format
  maybe someone that has been blogging longer
  than me might know the answer why.

  Teck

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 11, 2008 at 11:32 pm

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  From http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/10/domain-mapping/

  Note: You cannot map only the “www” subdomain since we remove the www from all the URLs at wordpress.com.

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  recherche21 · Member · Sep 11, 2008 at 11:33 pm

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  if someone types www. or leaves it out..it wont make a difference they will get you your blog ..try it