Do old url's expire?

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  ivevera · Member · May 9, 2013 at 7:50 pm

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  Recently I’ve been thinking of making a new blog about a game I usually play, but the link, i mean the URL is already taken by somebody who doesn’t use the site anymore. (I mean it got no posts and it was made in 2009). Does there exist any way to delete that old blog and make a new one instead? (I’m not the owner of that blog).
  Please reply asap.
  Link: http://leagueoflegends.wordpress.com/
  (or my 2nd idea was loll.wordpress.com, but this is the same situation as above)

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

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  timethief · Member · May 9, 2013 at 7:52 pm

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  No.

  re: unused blogs
  There is no expiration date on blogs unused or otherwise. If you can make contact on your own with the owner of an unused blog then 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.

  However, 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/