Changing URL

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  meganelizl · Member · Aug 1, 2017 at 8:42 pm

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  Hello,
  I changed the name of my blog from ‘The Salad Queens’ to ‘Beaver Tales’. I wanted the URL to change accordingly, but it doesn’t seem to be doing that automatically. I’m not sure why. I would like for the URL to change without paying.

  Thanks,
  Megan

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

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  timethief · Member · Aug 1, 2017 at 8:44 pm

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  You cannot register a site URL when it has already been registered. https://beavertales.wordpress.com/

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  timethief · Member · Aug 1, 2017 at 8:48 pm

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  https://thebeavertales.wordpress.com has also been registered.

  Technically you can leave a comment if comments are open and ask for that person to transfer the site to your username account. Transferring a Blog to Another WordPress.com User or Account https://en.support.wordpress.com/transferring-a-site-to-another-wordpress-com-account/

  However that is rarely successful. Moreover, there is no expiration date on any URL and no rule that one has to use it, and Staff will not violate privacy policy and provide you with the email address of the current owner.

  You can register another .wordpress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/register-a-blog/

  Adding a New Site or Blog to an Existing Account https://en.support.wordpress.com/create-a-blog/#adding-a-new-site-or-blog-to-an-existing-account

  Then if you wish to you can register a domain via a domain mapping upgrade because it does not matter what the underlying .wordpress.com address is when you are domain mapping.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/

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  timethief · Member · Aug 1, 2017 at 8:49 pm

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  I would like for the URL to change without paying.

  re: changing a .wordpress.com address
  We cannot edit any blog URLs. If you want to change the .wordpress.com blog address ie. the URL starting with http:// then you must be logged in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the blog to do that and the URL you desire must be available. If so, then you can change the URL by using the guide http://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/ Then all the content will be the same only the URLs will change and nothing else.

  Be sure to locate the correct page http://en.support.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/dashboard-e1371648470893.png

  Changing a URL is meant to be a permanent and irreversible act. No changed or deleted blog URLs are recycled here, regardless of who registered and deleted them and the only exceptions are made are for URLs that were deleted 2 or more years ago
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/