Domain Name Taken

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  ajdonaghy · Member · Nov 22, 2014 at 1:44 pm

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  Can I take a name from a dormant blog site?

  I wish to use fuelplusfire but it is currently ‘reserved’ by a site that has been set up in 2009 and never posted anything.

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

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  timethief · Member · Nov 22, 2014 at 3:17 pm

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  re: http://fuelplusfire.wordpress.com/

  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/