I tried to register a new blog, but found the name is taken– by an empty blog!

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  nonabiznass · Member · Feb 21, 2014 at 5:38 pm

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  I tried to register a new blog, but found the name is taken– by an empty blog! The name it bitsandbaubles.wordpress.com and it has only one test-post and one comment, both from 6 years ago that appear to have been generated by wordpress, and not by the user. Is there any way to get that blog name released to my username?

  Thanks for your help.

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

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  timethief · Member · Feb 21, 2014 at 5:39 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/