False accounts
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I wanted to register a new blog but it appears to be taken by someone trying to scam people into using them to design the site. When I went to the website to see if I could contact the person who has the account, their website has a suspension notice. I’ve included the info below.
Does anyone know if there is any way at all to get access to that name if it’s been set up by a fake account holder… if not, then that’s fine but I wanted to exhaust all avenues before I found an alternative.
Info on the website:
This Site has been suspended for breaching Zymic’s hosting T.O.S.
If you are the owner of this website,
Please ask for a member of the Zymic Abuse Team on Zymic IRCAbuse Notice
You will not get away with abusing our service. We utilize human review checking as well as automated abuse checks which will suspend and ban your account. Don’t bother wasting your time with our service if you aim to abuse it.
Phishing, fraud, scams, hacking…All phishing, fraud, scam and hacking websites will be reported to the FBI’s Cyber-Crime division (USA) and SOCA (Serious Organized Crime Agency – UK). We have no problem providing them the contents of your website, registration details, logs and IP addresses so that they can gain intelligence for online fraud and criminal activity.
We are a website host, use our service for hosting websites …
Our service is designed to host websites. Websites consist of web pages with either .html, .htm or .php files with text, images and styles. People think they can use our service as backup storage, file storage, photo dumps, warez and copyrighted material, etc. Use our service for hosting a website only.
Banned websites / web scripts
NO Phishing / Scams NO Hacking (Tools, Shell’s, …) NO Pornography
NO Warez NO Nulled Scripts NO Pharmacy / ‘Viagra’
NO SEO Spam / MFA NO Key Loggers NO Bit-Torrent Trackers / clients
NO vBulletin NO Invision Power Board NO Galaxy Tool
NO CStrike NO Web proxies NO RapidLeech
NO Chatrooms NO Habbo clones NO Webcams
NO Weather scripts NO Affiliate landing pages / MFA spam NO Warez link protectorsThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
This is the WordPress.COM support forum. You need to contact Zymic support for help with that site because it is not hosted by WordPress.COM. -
Thanks Timethief,
I might not have been clear. When I searched for a blog name that I wanted on WordPress it appears that someone has already taken it and put an ‘ad’ for want of a better term saying if I want the blog I have to go through them to design it. When I got to the webpage that they had as their contact I got the Zymic error message. So I wanted to know if a blog page is being ‘held’ in this way but you can’t get in touch with the owner what options there are. I guess it’s similar to buying a domain name and selling it to whomever wants it. I want the blog name but it’s currently being ‘held’. Hope that explains things a bit clearer? -
When I searched for a blog name that I wanted on WordPress it appears that someone has already taken it
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/ -
Also note that even if the URL is deleted you cannot register it. Deleted blog URLs are not recycled, regardless of who registered and deleted them and no exceptions are made.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/ -
Fabulous! I tried searching for ‘fake accounts’ in the search engine but didn’t get this info. Appreciate the help. That answers my question. Thank you :)
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That’s ok, once I saw it was gone I’d figured this would be the answer. I didn’t know if you owned the domain name it doesn’t matter so much what the WordPress site was set up as so that’s a plus as I already own the domain name :)
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