How to delete 7 year old blog with no posts and no pages
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I posted this question a week ago with no response. I made a blog called mile5.wordpress.com 7 years ago and I forgot the email address that I used to create it. There are no posts and no pages and only the single default generic comment. WordPress support will not remove it stating that they must “protect my identity” (from MYSELF). I want to reclaim that name so I can use it. I’ve owned the domain mile5.com for 12 years. How can I get WordPress to do housekeeping on old cyber junk like this? Thank You to anyone that replies. Regards !!
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Companies, groups and organizations of any kind do not own blogs.
Every WordPress.COM blog has a sole owner. It is the person with the WordPress.COM username account who registered the blog under that username account and a single associated email address, and who is the original Admin of the blogs registered under that username account.
You have to be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard. The Admin login link to the dashboard for every blog hosted by wordpress.COM is:
http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/
* You will have to replace “name_of_blog” with the actual blog’s name in that URL.
After the blog’s owner logs in clicking this link should display all blogs registered under the same username account, including the hidden ones: https://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-blogs&show=hidden
If the blog’s owner does not see the blog here http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/ then they need to follow this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/#my-blogs-dashboard-visibility
If the log-in information is lost they need to visit https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword
If you do not have the required access you need to contact the employees who registered these accounts and sites under them and have them transfer the sites to your username account by using this process. http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account
If you check each and every possible email address and account and are not successful gaining access to the blog(s) then you must complete the form for account recovery at this link https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=recovery and submit it to the Account Recovery Staff, and provide proof ownership, so they can contact you by email ie. not on these public support forums, which are available to everyone with internet access.
Support Staff cannot breach the privacy policy and provide the log-in information. You have to provide proof ownership to Account Recovery Staff to gain access https://en.support.wordpress.com/account-recovery/
If you cannot provide proof ownership to Account Recovery Staff, so they can contact you by email ie. not on these public support forums, which are available to everyone with internet access, then you have reached a dead end.
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I spent many hours trying every possible email that I still have access to. The so called “account recovery” required a “transaction id”, and “activation key”, or a “two factor authentication code”. All of which never existed for this blog or I would not have access to because I deleted the email address that was used to create this blog. Your policy on this matter is inadequate and can easily be improved. It’s a 7 year old blog that has zero posts and zero pages but it’s using a domain name I’ve owned for 12 years and I can easily prove that. The vast majority of providers will do “housekeeping” on obviously dead email accounts and free blogs and so forth. There cannot possibly be a better candidate for deletion than this particular dead – unused – never used – blog.
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I couldn’t agree more with malmilligan! I too have an old and undesirable blog that was posted for a client over 5 years ago! All the staff associated with setting up this blog are long gone and there are no records including “account recovery”, “transaction id”, and “activation key”, or a “two factor authentication code” to retrieve in order to submit a request for a password to access the admin and delete this forever! http://bluegrassveterinaryvision.wordpress.com
If there is something that can be done, I can provide proof from the client that this is indeed her business and business address of record along with a written statement that she wants the site access in order for it to be deleted. Your help would be greatly appreciated!!! -
WordPress is still rather young compared to the internet or to Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft for example, and as such has been caught unprepared to deal with this type of situation efficiently. As a professional website developer for many years, I’ve done a dozen DMCA takedowns with numerous ISP’s and with Google and Yahoo and Microsoft. It’s a system where the provider promises to look at the problem of true ownership and further, to make a judgement to either correct the access problem or leave it as is. The person complaining must be clearly identified and verified and there has to be some kind of proof to reasonably substantiate the claim. For DMCA takedowns we frequently reference the “Wayback Machine” to show content on the original legitimate site at a previous date. There are attorneys involved frequently on both sides of the DMCA paperwork. For access problems with WordPress.com sites and login credentials, to not allow the true site owner a chance to prove themselves in various ways is inappropriate and I wonder if it’s actually legal as it is truly denying access of proprietary and copywritten content to their legal owners without a reasonable burden of proof. The so called “proof of ownership” requirements currently in use by WordPress.com is rather inadequate as it’s mostly based on “vaporware”… ie. an email address which might easily have been lost or have always been unknown to the site’s true owner. I’ve dedicated a large portion of my life to building WordPress.org sites and to promoting WordPress, and I’m going to continue to work to get this resolved appropriately, intelligently, and elegantly.
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