Domains: not used since 2006 and reserved, can get available?

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  fersecco · Member · Mar 25, 2013 at 9:50 pm

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  Hello,
  I am trying to register a blog and all the addresses I tried do not work.
  I specifically tried “enteresting.wordpress.com” and “diverting.wordpress.com”, the first one exists but hasn’t been used since 2006, and the second one appears to be reserved.

  I would like to know if there is any possibility I could ask permission to use any of them?
  How long the reservation will last for?

  Thank you very much,
  Kind regards

  Fernanda

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  timethief · Member · Mar 25, 2013 at 9:53 pm

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  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.

  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/