yes it was created. it turned out as thehear-- was going for thehearth..
after some waiting, i tried again and succeeded in creating the-hearth.. which is weird you said you had a problem creating with a "-"... haha! now i have an account floating around! too bad and still don't know why that happened... anyway, excellent tutorial above. definitely helped me today!
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