Do sites get out of date?
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I wonder if a blog site is erased automatically if not used after a long long time.
When I created my blog (ekonomicus.wordpress.com) last year, I tried first to create “http://economicus.wordpress.com”. However, this latter was already registered since 2007… but never used!! There is no message, not even a name!
So I had to put a K instead of a C.
Today I checked it again and this “economicus” was still registered by the same person and no signal of activity on it after 4 years.
When is it supposed to be erased this old “economicus”? I would like to have it because the name is more “normal” than ekonomicus.
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Hi. Sorry, but blog adresses do not “expire” due to inactivity and are not released. Please read this article for an explanation:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/ -
I understand :)
However, my suggestion should be to distinguish between active blogs and blogs which have not even a single post, as the case I tried to explain. If some admin could delete ‘economicus’ (with 0 post since its creation 4 years ago) I could assume that nothing were to happen.
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Some blogs are created to generate an Akismet code which is used for tracking stats on a self hosted website.
The blog itself might not be being used but the code could well be.
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The name may also be an active user account: someone who has been invited to view a private blog. Or it could be someone who contributes to another blog as an author or editor. Or it could be a person who uses it as a “test blog” so his posts are all only drafts.
One can’t assume that just because there are no posts, the account is not being used.
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