Domain question

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  portlandreview · Member · Sep 23, 2012 at 4:36 pm

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  I’m taking over as editor of The Portland Review. Our domain was purchased through Word Press last year. I believe the previous editor converted theportlandreview.com to a personal blog (marshallandmagnes.wordpress.com). I would love to be able to use the same domain name, and I know it’s been relinquished, but when I tried to purchase the domain, it says it isn’t available and can’t be mapped.
  Blog url: http://portlandreview.wordpress.com/

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 23, 2012 at 4:54 pm

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  theportlandreview.com – is not registered here and is mapped to a holding site – that name belongs to whoever has registered it – the owner has opted for a private registration (do a whois for contact info) – you would need to get the name from them

  marshallandmagnes.wordpress.com – belongs to the account that registered it – you would need to have them transfer it to you if you wanted to use it – no way for you to take it over (it looks like they stopped posting in June)

  Lacking either of the two above options – use the domain name you have now (portlandreview.wordpress.com) and start using it and getting the new URL out into the public arena