blog name available but can’t register

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  jacobsfotos · Member · Nov 28, 2010 at 4:18 pm

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  hello i entered a name to register and it said blog available. green check mark and all
  but when i hit create it says blog by that name already exists
  we then tried two alternatives and got the same problem
  this is for a business that wants premium features. what’s going on here?

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

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  timethief · Member · Nov 28, 2010 at 5:14 pm

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  Hello there. Every time a username is registered the blog of the same name is “reserved” by Staff for the username account. To register it that username account must contact Staff directly. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

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  timethief · Member · Nov 28, 2010 at 5:18 pm

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  this is for a business that wants premium features

  Have you read these support documentation entries?
  http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/

  Also note that Section 2, 5th bullet of the ToS disallows using a wordpress.com blog to drive traffic to 3rd party sites, and wordpress.com blogs cannot be equipped for ecommerce transactions.