How do I change my wordpress URL?

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  heatherdyerhome · Member · Jan 19, 2015 at 6:08 pm

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  I didn’t realize the username became the URL. How do I change that? Mine is heatherdyerhome.wordpress.com but I want the URL to reflect the site title: forty gifts.wordpress.com

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Jan 19, 2015 at 6:12 pm

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  You cannot register a URL that has already been registered https://fortygifts.wordpress.com/
  Username account https://en.forums.wordpress.com/profile/fortygifts

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  timethief · Member · Jan 19, 2015 at 6:13 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/

  Understand that I am not recommending that you change a blog address because doing so without purchasing a site redirect upgrade breaks every link. http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/

  We cannot edit any blog URLs. If you want to change the .wordpress.com blog address ie. the URL starting with http:// then you must be logged in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the blog to do that and the URL you desire must be available. If so, then you can change the URL by using the guide http://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/

  Be sure to locate the correct page http://en.support.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/dashboard-e1371648470893.png

  Changing a URL is a permanent and irreversible act. No changed or deleted blog URLs are recycled here, regardless of who registered and deleted them and no exceptions are made.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

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  heatherdyerhome · Member · Jan 19, 2015 at 6:16 pm

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  Thanks. That’s a lot of trouble for a little hobby blog. Guess I’ll be finding another platform.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 19, 2015 at 6:18 pm

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  Blog has been removed
  Sorry, the blog at fortygifts.blogspot.com has been removed. This address is not available for new blogs.

  Best wishes to you.