Creating a user matching the blog domain

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  fervidal · Member · Sep 12, 2012 at 1:17 am

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  Hi:

  I moved my Posterous posts to WordPress, but I was not asked to create a new user for that blog (exactly what I wanted to do). Now I am trying to create a new user name, but I am told that that user name is not available. I have checked that there is no account created to that user name, so it should be available. What can I do to get a user name that matches the domain of my blog?

  Thank you very much for your help
  Blog url: http://doalvares.wordpress.com/

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

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  timethief · Member · Sep 12, 2012 at 1:20 am

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  That’s not possible. Usernames can be turned into blog addresses, but blog addresses cannot be turned into usernames. For most usernames and blog addresses are the same. When we register a WordPress.com username account the matching blog is automatically reserved for our future use. That reserved blog cannot be obtained by anyone other than the person who has registered the matching username.

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  fervidal · Member · Sep 12, 2012 at 2:06 am

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  Thank you for your answer, timethief. I really don’t understand this policy, as it means that for this blog I will be forced to use another blog service and not WordPress if I want to use my user name (which I really need to do) :( :(

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  timethief · Member · Sep 12, 2012 at 2:09 am

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  I’m sorry.