wordpress.com signup problems

over on wordpress.com i chose a domain i want thatll cost the $17 to not end in .wordpress i chose a username/password and gave my email address then selected signup but it repeatedly said error please try again. it was on about the 7th go it finally worked ( each time id had to fill in most of the form again) please look into why this happened…i nearly gave up and stuck to blogger which im familiar with. we need a forum for getting started as i cant really see a great place to put this thread so chose this one