Changing ‘.wordpress.com’ url

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    apiomancy · Member ·

    Hi, I’ve just tried to change my blog url from apiomancy.wordpress.com to my name, erisyoung.wordpress.com, and got as far as step 5 on this page https://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-site-address/ but got the error message ‘Sorry, that site is reserved!’.
    There is no such website as erisyoung.wordpress.com, but I did just try to change my url in the ‘web address’ field on the page https://wordpress.com/me/account to ‘erisyoung.wordpress.com’. I did this, saw that it didn’t seem to have changed anything, and changed the wordpress.com/me field back to apiomancy as it was before. So I wonder if having done that has interfered with it.
    Any help appreciated,
    -Eris

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

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    gemmacevans · Member ·

    Hi Eris,

    got the error message ‘Sorry, that site is reserved!’.

    When a WordPress.com account is created, we automatically reserve a matching site address for that account — so erisyoung.wordpress.com is reserved for erisyoung. This is why erisyoung.wordpress.com is unavailable when changing your site address.

    While that exact address isn’t available, you can use another variation.

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    apiomancy · Member ·

    Hi Gemma,
    Thanks for the info. The thing is, I’m pretty sure user erisyoung is actually me? I was fooling around with account settings in my attempts to change my blog site address, and at one point I tried changing my username to erisyoung to see if this would change my url. It didn’t, so I changed it back to apiomancy, but that seems (unless I’m mistaken) to have reserved that url so that now I, erisyoung, cannot use it. Is there a way to check whether erisyoung is a username which is currently in use?
    Thanks,
    -E

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    The erisyoung username account is a completely different username from the apiomancy account you’re using to post here, using a different email address from the one associated with your apiomancy account.

    We have no way of knowing if you created that account. On the contrary, if you believe that is your account the responsibility falls on you to verify to us that are the owner.

    If you believe that is your account, but you no longer have the login details you used for that account, the only way to regain access is via our account recovery process, here:

    Recover Your Account

    at one point I tried changing my username to erisyoung to see if this would change my url. It didn’t, so I changed it back to apiomancy

    It is not possible to change back a username change – username changes are permanent – and based on the account logs the erisyoung account was not created as part of a username change.

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