How can someone else have my wordpress domain registered?

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  pookaheart · Member · Oct 5, 2015 at 7:07 pm

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  Hi all! I’m pretty confused here so hopefully someone can help…

  I have had this account for awhile but am only just ready to start trying to set up my wordpress site and went to go create pookaheart.wordpress.com (I have an old never used version pookaheartpath.wordpress.com) but every time I type it in, it puts BLOG in there : pookaheartblog.wordpress.com

  Ack! I went and looked for pookaheart.wordpress.com and recieved a page that tells me both that it doesn’t exist and also that it’s already registered!? How is this possible? It’s my username… shouldn’t it be mine?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 5, 2015 at 7:43 pm

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  I typed type modlook into the sidebar tags on this thread for Staff help. How do I get a Moderator/Staff reply for my question? https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-help-in-the-forums/#how-do-i-get-a-moderatorstaff-reply-for-my-question Then please subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.

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  designsimply · Member · Oct 5, 2015 at 8:49 pm

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  When you are trying to setup pookaheart.wordpress.com, are you doing it while logged out or while logged in to WordPress.com?

  Does the same problem happen if you make sure to log in to https://wordpress.com/ as pookaheart first and then start at https://wordpress.com/start ?

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  pookaheart · Member · Oct 29, 2015 at 7:09 pm

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  Ack! Thanks Timethief, I -am- subscribed but apparently I didn’t get a notification… maybe it went into my spam? I’ll have to go check.

  Yes, while logged in designsimply, I am logged in at .com, them go to .com/start, select a template, it takes me then to the domain selection where I can type in pookaheart and it just refuses to show me anything except pookaheartblog.wordpress :(

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  designsimply · Member · Oct 29, 2015 at 9:34 pm

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  If you are logged in as the matching username, then it should let you create a blog with the same name. Let’s try a different link. Can you start at https://en.wordpress.com/typo/?subdomain=pookaheart and let me know if you get a link that will let you create pookaheart.wordpress.com this time?

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  pookaheart · Member · Nov 3, 2015 at 7:28 pm

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  Yes! Oh yes thank you! <3
  What causes that!?
  Thank you so much designsimply, you rock! :D

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  designsimply · Member · Nov 4, 2015 at 11:56 am

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  The system is supposed to reserve a blog with a name to match your username, and I’m not sure why it wasn’t letting you do that before.

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  pookaheart · Member · Nov 4, 2015 at 6:43 pm

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  Oh well, at least it is all sorted out now.
  Thanks again for your help! :)