are blogs automatically closed?

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  arnuss · Member · Feb 21, 2012 at 12:45 pm

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  hi,
  i’d like to know if wordpress automatically deletes blogs after a period of time without traffic. is it possible not to write anything for, lets say, a year, and still have the blog up and going when i come back?

  thanks!

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

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 21, 2012 at 1:03 pm

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  No, god today alone we got someone who wanted to use the domain name of a blog that’s been registered, but completely empty, since 2006.

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  valpixels · Member · Feb 21, 2012 at 1:20 pm

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  It seems wordpress won’t delete the empty domain even long years ago. am I right?

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 21, 2012 at 1:35 pm

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  You’re right. Too much potential for drama. If you want a particular domain and the blogger has posted contact info, you can ask them if they want to give it up. Otherwise it just sits there.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 21, 2012 at 9:52 pm

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  @arnuss
  
  @valpixels
  Just in case you two don’t know this, if you register another .wordpress.com blog and purchase a domain mapping upgrade what the underlying .wordpress.com subdomain URL is does not matter at all. See here for registering such a “placeholder” blog.
  See here for purchasing a domain name and a domain mapping upgrade.