Get ownership of domain of a deceased person?

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  lpassell · Member · Nov 23, 2014 at 9:59 pm

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  I am helping a friend make a wordpress.com site honoring the works of her father, a deceased author. Before he died he took the URL HISNAME.wordpress.com, but never did anything with it. She has no idea how to get into that site. I want to use that URL. Anyone know if there is a way I can use the URL? If WordPress will give it to ME since the person in question will no longer be needed it?

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  timethief · Member · Nov 23, 2014 at 10:01 pm

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  See here http://en.support.wordpress.com/deceased-user/

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  timethief · Member · Nov 23, 2014 at 10:01 pm

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  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/

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  justjennifer · Member · Nov 23, 2014 at 10:34 pm

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  Since obviously it will not be possible to reach the site owner/deceased party via a comment or contact form on the site in question, the heirs of the deceased user will need to follow up with the instructions outlined in the Deceased User Support document that tt mentioned in her earlier comment.