I want to use a username that someone else has.

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  drw11 · Member · Feb 3, 2015 at 2:14 am

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  Someone has a username that I would like to use. I was wondering, since it is basically a blank template with no posts, if it is inactive. If it is, whether or not I can somehow get ownership of willarts.wordpress.com, since I would be using it.

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

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  timethief · Member · Feb 3, 2015 at 2:16 am

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  Be aware that username accounts are never deleted here http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/ and Staff cannot breach privacy policy and give you the email address of the person who registered the account.

  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/