Attempting to transfer url and switch to another one

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  charlesdschultz · Member · May 31, 2013 at 8:36 pm

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  Good day,

  I have a 3rd party that is interested in using my current url. I am exploring the option switching my blog to use a different url while reserving the old (current) url for the 3rd party. What is the easiest way to accomplish this?

  One of the urls I would like to use is citizen4.wordpress.com. However, it appears to be taken and yet has no content. Is it actually owned by anyone? If yes, no problem, I can find a different url. If it is not owned by anyone alive today, may I take ownership?

  Thanks!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 2, 2013 at 4:51 am

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  VideoPress has a separate website and support. Here is the link to the support page: http://videopress.com/support/

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  charlesdschultz · Member · Jun 2, 2013 at 12:47 pm

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  Umm….. wrong thread?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 2, 2013 at 2:27 pm

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  @charlesdschultz, that’s embarrassing, very sorry about that. You could add the 3rd party as a user, but it is never a good idea to add additional Admins to your sites as explained in this support document on user roles. If the other admin were to delete the site, then it is gone and there would be nothing you could do about it.

  citizen4.wordpress.com is owned. You can attempt to contact the owner of that blog and ask them if they would like to transfer it to you. You can do this by either leaving them a message using a contact form if it exists, or leaving a comment on an existing page or post requesting they contact you.

  If you are able to reach the blog owner and they are willing to transfer the blog to you, here are the instructions they can use to do that.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account

  Keep in mind we also offer an upgrade for custom domain names and you can use any WordPress.com blog URL underneath a custom domain. For more details about how domain mapping works:

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