Can you override a blog address

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  thedash08 · Member · Dec 12, 2012 at 6:34 pm

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  I am starting a blog for my business “Soft”. The url: soft.wordpress.com is taking. However the page has only one post when it opened in 2005. Is there any procedure for closing pages from disuse.

  I just didnt see the reason for the page to go to waste when its clearly not being untilized. Perhaps just emailing the contact and seeing if they intend to use, or even remember making the page.

  Thank you for your time,
  Shari O.

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

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Dec 12, 2012 at 6:39 pm

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  There is no expiration date on blogs unused or otherwise. If you can make contact on your own with the owner of an unused blog then there is a means of a consenting blog owner to transfer the blog to another username account. http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account

  In the case that there is no contact information Staff will not breach the privacy policy and provide you with an email address.

  If you are not successful, you can register another blog with a similar name. http://en.support.wordpress.com/register-a-blog/

  Or you can register a domain via a domain mapping upgrade and it will not matter what the underlying .wordpress.com address is.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/