Blogs unused for years retaining urls, making it impossible to find a free one

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  cattyfox · Member · Sep 22, 2011 at 1:51 pm

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  I have literally spent hours trying to pick a name for my blog, and have come up with quite a few only to find they are unable. I then search for the blog to see if it is being used and am continually coming across blogs that haven’t ever been used and were started YEARS ago, one was even from 2006! If you’d like an example, check out:

  ladyfox
  fauxfox
  fancyfox

  and many more. I’m sure you appreciate the fact that name is an extremely important part of gaining a following…nobody will look twice at a blog named ladyfox2746! I wouldn’t bother emailing if i hadn’t come across this problem as many times as i had, it cannot just be affecting me. Please let me know what you can do,
  Blog url: http://ladyf0x.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 22, 2011 at 8:04 pm

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  I’m sorry, but we do not reuse or reassign blog names on WordPress.com.

  If you like, 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

  If they do not respond or refuse the transfer, you will need to select a different name for your WordPress.com blog.

  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:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/