Deleting Another User's Inactive Site

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  0utofthesky · Member · Feb 19, 2013 at 4:30 pm

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  I know WordPress doesn’t delete sites sue to inactivity, but I have to ask about this anyway. It’s important to me.

  There is a site called http://outoftheblue.wordpress.com/. It hasn’t ever been used or updated, just created back in 2006.

  It would mean a great deal to me if I could use the name outoftheblue. However, this 6-year inactive and unused blog is preventing me.

  Is it really not possible to delete it?

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

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  0utofthesky · Member · Feb 19, 2013 at 5:38 pm

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  I think I will contact them, and if they don’t reply, I will move on.

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  auxclass · Member · Feb 19, 2013 at 5:46 pm

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  Is it really not possible to delete it?

  That is correct – also note that once a blog is deleted the blog name is gone forever and can’t be used again

  Leave a comment on the blog and hope for the best

  You can get a custom domain name and map it to a blog here if you want – and yes that does cost about $ 18.– / year (registration and mapping)