How do i claim an abandoned wordpress site?

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  dakamatt · Member · Nov 18, 2011 at 9:36 pm

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  Hi there :)

  I have my blog at dakaswanderings.wordpress, and i was going to switch it to awakeningheart.wordpress and it told me that the site name is already in use. I looked up the site and found that it hadnt been updated since march 2007, and there were actually no posts beyond the default one. Basically the site has never been used. I was wondering how i would go about laying claim to it?

  Thanks :)
  Blog url: http://dakaswanderings.wordpress.com/

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  kardotim · Member · Nov 19, 2011 at 8:46 am

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  I’m sorry, but we do not reuse or reassign blog names on WordPress.com.

  If you like, you can attempt to contact the owner of that blog and ask them if they would like to transfer it to you. You can do this by either leaving them a message using a contact form if it exists, or leaving a comment on an existing page or post requesting they contact you.

  If you are able to reach the blog owner and they are willing to transfer the blog to you, here are the instructions they can use to do that.

  Keep in mind we also offer an upgrade for custom domain names and you can use any WordPress.com blog URL underneath a custom domain.

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  dakamatt · Member · Nov 22, 2011 at 4:48 pm

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  thanks :) you can close this thread now :)