Delete a non-active blog

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  ancapangel666 · Member · Jul 31, 2014 at 2:55 pm

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  I would like to give a new blog URL a specific name, “adamnoeve.wordpress.com” but there is another blog that already has the name. The existing blog, however, has virtually no posts and was created over 5 years ago. I would assume that whoever then created this blog has no wish to return to it, so I ask that the WordPress staff please contact the owner of the blog and request permission from him/her to delete it if that user no longer intends to use it–if it is possible, that is.

  Here is the blog URL:
  http://adamnoeve.wordpress.com/

  Thanks,
  Adam

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

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  timethief · Member · Jul 31, 2014 at 2:57 pm

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  Hello there,

  There is no expiration date on blogs unused, reserved or otherwise. If you can make contact on your own with the owner of an unused blog via a contact form or commenting, then providing the are agreeable 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.

  If you are not successful, you can register another blog with a similar name. http://en.support.wordpress.com/register-a-blog/

  Or you can register a domain via 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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  auxclass · Member · Aug 1, 2014 at 12:33 am

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  If the blog is deleted you still can’t use it since blog URL’s are never recycled here – once deleted – a name is gone forever