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  vice9783557166ac · Member · Apr 2, 2023 at 2:47 am

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  the domain i want is taken but the website has never been built or used. The home page boasts wordpress but there is no info. how might i go about contacting the owner?

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  aisajib · Member · Apr 3, 2023 at 6:14 am

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  Hi there!

  This is not something we can help with since people may buy and hold on to their domains. Even if the domain is hosted by us at WordPress.com, we won’t be able to contact the domain owner on your behalf.

  You can check for any contact or comment forms on their site to send the site owner a message.

  Alternatively, you can look up the domain on the WHOIS database to see if you can contact them that way. Depending on the domain, you can find their contact details on the domain’s WHOIS lookup.

  If you are unable to find any contact information, you may also want to monitor the domain and wait for its expiration date. If the owner does not renew the domain, you may have the opportunity to register it once it becomes available again. You can also consider choosing a different domain name or using a different domain extension that better suits your needs.

  If you’re okay with sharing, what’s the domain name you’re looking at? We can suggest alternatives if you’d like our input.