Can a dead blog URL be “freed” ?

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  sabin123 · Member · Jan 13, 2009 at 4:41 pm

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  Hello,

  I want to create a wordpress blog, but unfortunately, all the URLs I could think of were already taken by empty blogs, blogs created years and years ago, and containing only 1 post, the default welcome post, without any kind of personalization of any sort.

  For instance, an example among dozens of others, but the one with the cutest domain name : http://imagine.wordpress.com/

  Do you think there is a possibility the wordpress.com team could “release” one of these adresses, when we report it ?

  Thanks a lot if you can share your opinion on this matter,

  Best regards,
  Sabin

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 13, 2009 at 5:04 pm

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  No, there is no chance of them releasing a blog that exists, whether it has been used in a long time or not. The thing is, there are a portion of those blogs that people with self-hosted wordpress blogs set up so that they could have an API key to install Akisment and/or the wordpress blog stats plugin on their self-hosted blog.

  They also will not recycle blog names on blogs that people have deleted: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/recycling-blog-names/

  What you can do is leave a message on the blogs and ask the person if they would be willing to part with it and transfer it to you.

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  sabin123 · Member · Jan 17, 2009 at 7:19 pm

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  That doesn’t leave much hope to release good URLs, even in a distant future, unfortunately, but I guess there’s no helping it, then.

  Thank you TheSacredPath for your detailed answer :)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 17, 2009 at 7:24 pm

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  You’re very welcome. I expect at some point in the future, wordpress will have to release at least some of the deleted names, but that probably will not be soon.