Title: Default theme doesn’t work
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Default theme doesn’t work

 *  [johnng](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnng/)
 * (@johnng)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-theme-doesnt-work/)
 * It seems that the default theme doesn’t work when the domain name contains two
   dash characters. example:
 * [http://my–domain.com](http://my–domain.com)

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 *  [somefool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/somefool/)
 * (@somefool)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-theme-doesnt-work/#post-210240)
 * _Safari can’t find the server.
    Safari can’t open the page “http://my–domain.
   com/â€? because it can’t find the server “my–domain.comâ€?.
 * Well the site doesnt work for me, full-stop .
 *  [Michael Adams (mdawaffe)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdawaffe/)
 * (@mdawaffe)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-theme-doesnt-work/#post-210241)
 * I believe this is the same problem as discussed in the following:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/34748#post-196640](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/34748#post-196640)

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 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Michael Adams (mdawaffe)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdawaffe/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-theme-doesnt-work/#post-210241)
 * Status: not resolved

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