We had planned on doing a C&P migration of a domain with the initial assumption that the TLD was .local.

Turns out it is .com, is it still possible to do C&P?

TLD is company.com, no sub domain.

We want xxxxxxx.company.com as the AD sub domain.  From everything I read C&P requires a different TLD or can it work so long as we use a sub domain?  Eventually the old server will go away.

Going from 2003 64 Bit to 2012 R2 as far as schema.

Yes you can.

But

If you have xyz.com now and you want sub.xyz.com and you create this as a child domain then the old xyz.com will always be around.  You can create sub.xyz.com as a different forest and migrate off of xyz.com if you want.

If you're going from 2003 to 2012 you'll need to wait for the newest version of ADMT to be released.  Right now 3.2 does not support 2012.  You can create the new domain as 2008 R2 and then raise it to 2012 after your migration if you need to start soonest.

You can't do a graft of your current domain to a new forest.  You can do a migration with free tools from Microsoft, Active Directory Migration Toolkit (ADMT)

ADMT
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc974332(v=WS.10).aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8377

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I just want to confirm what is the current situation.

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is it possible to C&P from domain.com to the same exact domain.com name in parallel (having both up)? Or am i forced to move it do a different domain?