How do I get a wordpress.com name that someone has parked?

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  sciencefic · Member · Jul 25, 2015 at 6:16 pm

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  I would like, please, to take control of the WordPress.com name.

  Right now has been parked, doing nothing, for some time – it’s a waste of space. I would like to make it into a useful WordPress site.

  Is this possible?

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

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  sciencefic · Member · Jul 25, 2015 at 6:18 pm

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  As a note to the footer which appears above, I do not need help with my blog. I only wish to find out what may be done about the issue stated.

  Thank you.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 25, 2015 at 8:29 pm

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  There is no expiration date on .wordpress.com blogs unused, reserved or otherwise.

  If and only if, you can make contact on your own with the owner of an unused blog via submitting a contact form on the site or commenting on a post on the site, then providing the site owner is agreeable to it 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 or you do not get a response to a contact form submission or to a comment on the site, Staff will not breach the privacy policy and provide you with an email address.

  If you are not successful do not despair as 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/