Creating a username from a registered URL

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  lenspolisher · Member · Nov 17, 2017 at 12:04 pm

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  Hi,

  I’m trying to change the username of this account to a WordPress URL I have already registered from a different account.

  In other words:
  – from a different account, I registered xyzabc1234567.wordpress.com
  –how do I now claim the username xyzabc1234567?

  When I try to change a username to that, it says it’s not available – rather than it already exists. So it’s not taken, and I own the URL of that – is there a way of claiming the username?

  Many thanks!

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  fstat · Staff · Nov 17, 2017 at 2:11 pm

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  Hi there,

  If a username is unavailable it means that it’s either deleted or already taken. In the case of a deleted username, there’s no way for anyone else to claim it due to security reasons (impersonation etc.).

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  lenspolisher · Member · Dec 9, 2017 at 2:54 pm

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  In the case of a deleted username, there’s no way for anyone else to claim it

  Many thanks fstat – much appreciated. Just to check – in this case, I’m 99.999% sure that the username was never created in the first place. As I can demonstrate that I own the URL I’m trying to claim the username for, is there any way that WordPress can assign me that username?

  Many thanks again!

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  fstat · Staff · Dec 11, 2017 at 9:10 am

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  Unfortunately not. We can’t just take one person’s username and give it to someone else.