Inactive URL

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  woooricflair · Member · May 31, 2017 at 3:53 am

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  Hi. There’s a WP URL I would like to use which happens to be taken. However it has not been active for 9 years. Is there anyway I could have that URL? The suggested alternate URL isn’t very good.

  Thanks for reading

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

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  otpidusprime · Member · May 31, 2017 at 12:07 pm

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  Hello @woooricflair
  You can try to contact the user/owner of that site and ask(not demand) to transfer the site(after emptying it) to your account by following the instructions given here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/transferring-a-site-to-another-wordpress-com-account/, so you can use the URL associated with it.

  Remember, even if the site is inactive for years it is up to the owner if he/she wants to transfer the ownership to you.

  If the site with your desired URL is already deleted by the owner, then I am sorry the URL cannot be used because once a site is deleted it’s address gets reserved so that it cannot be registered by anyone(not even by the original owner). This is done to keep blogs/sites from being impersonated.

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  Sites already deleted by their authors two or more years ago may become available again, if they present no username or other technical conflicts.

  As stated here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

  Thanks!

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  woooricflair · Member · Jun 1, 2017 at 12:56 am

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  Thank you for the reply! I’ll come up with a unique url instead.

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  otpidusprime · Member · Jun 1, 2017 at 9:16 am

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  @woooricflair Sure! Whatever works best for you. 😇