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Forums / I think I might have reserved a blog/site address under a different email in the past.

I think I might have reserved a blog/site address under a different email in the past.

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    jessythetravelingwallflower · Member · Aug 1, 2016 at 11:24 pm
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    Hello,
    I’m trying to change my site address but it says that the address I want is reserved. I tried going to that address but it says,

    ‘<theAddressIWant>.wordpress.com doesn’t exist
    The address <theAddressIWant>.wordpress.com cannot be registered. Sorry, that site is reserved!’

    There is no option to contact the owner about obtaining it. It was probably me a while ago with an old email address.

    Is there any way to contact the owner to see about freeing up the address so that I can use it?

    Thanks!

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

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    timethief · Member · Aug 1, 2016 at 11:28 pm
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    When we register a username account the matching blog URL is reserved for our future use. It cannot be obtained by anyone other than the person who has registered the matching username account.

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    timethief · Member · Aug 1, 2016 at 11:29 pm
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    Is there any way to contact the owner to see about freeing up the address so that I can use it?

    Staff cannot breach the privacy policy.

    You must be logged in under the exact same username that registered the site to be able to access the site. The Admin login link to the dashboard for every blog hosted by wordpress.COM is:

    http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/

    Replace NAME_OF_BLOG in that URL with the actual name of your blog.

    If you are not logged in under that account then clear your browser cache https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies and then login correctly under the relevant username account.

    If the login information has been lost go to
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/passwords/
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/passwords/#lost-password

    If required use the account recovery form
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/account-recovery/

    Recover Your Account

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    jessythetravelingwallflower · Member · Aug 2, 2016 at 12:16 am
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    Thank you!

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