'Www' in a WordPress custom domain

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  tropicaldial · Member · Nov 26, 2012 at 4:24 pm

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  How to have the ‘www’ in front of the custom domain I registered through WordPress?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  notawoodpecker · Member · Nov 26, 2012 at 5:05 pm

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  Why?

  It really doesn’t matter anymore with modern browsers.

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  tropicaldial · Member · Nov 26, 2012 at 5:52 pm

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  i know it doesn’t matter but just thought it’d be nice to have.
  Also asking as some wordpress blogs have it and some don’t…

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 26, 2012 at 5:56 pm

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  www is old internet – WordPress.COM strips out the www so you are ahead of many sites – if you have a WordPress.ORG install on your own host you can add back the www

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  timethief · Member · Nov 26, 2012 at 8:26 pm

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  We actually strip out the www. for your convenience, and http://www.writerintheforest.com/ will always redirect to http://writerintheforest.com/

  www is an old protocol from back when everything was under separate server hardware. www (www.example.com) was the web server, mail (mail.example.com) was the mail server, ftp (ftp.example.com) was the FTP server, print (print.example.com) was the print server, etc.

  These days, everything is run under the web server, making www. redundant and a waste of four characters.

  Support requests on left on the public support forum can only be removed if they present a valid security or personal safety risk, as their answers are a valuable searchable resource for the entire WordPress.com community. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/did-i-pay-twice?replies=6#post-1052187