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Forums / changing url, but someone has the one you want.

changing url, but someone has the one you want.

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    irrelevantlyirreverent · Member · Sep 1, 2012 at 1:08 pm
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    I would like to change my URL to snacksandtracks, but someone already holds this, although their blog is empty of content, i have sent them a message requesting them to use it or let me change mine…do I have any other options, as I don’t really want to leave wordpress.
    Blog url: http://irrelevantlyirreverent.wordpress.com/

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

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    notawoodpecker · Member · Sep 1, 2012 at 1:32 pm
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    do I have any other options,

    No.

    If you can’t make contact, or if they don’t want to give it up, there are no other options.

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    timethief · Member · Sep 1, 2012 at 4:11 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.

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

    Or you can register a domain vis 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/

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