how do I get a domain that has been inactive for some time?

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  jdm0830 · Member · Jan 28, 2015 at 5:42 pm

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  Hello All!

  I am want to setup a new blog, but the site I want to use under wordpress is already owned. The thing is that the guy who owns the site last posted in 2006. Considering it has been 9 years, can I take the domain or how do i go about doing that? It is free from wordpress.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 28, 2015 at 5:59 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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  jdm0830 · Member · Jan 28, 2015 at 6:04 pm

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  well is that the worse case scenario. Thanks!

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  jdm0830 · Member · Jan 28, 2015 at 6:04 pm

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  isnt that*