Is it possible to release URL it for me?

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  hellmamute · Member · Jun 28, 2012 at 2:00 am

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  I would like to change the URL of my blog, but this blog with the URL I would like this inactive. Is it possible to release it for me?
  Blog url: http://semoquefaze.wordpress.com/

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

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 28, 2012 at 2:06 am

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  WordPress.com does not take blogs, inactive or otherwise away from people and give them to someone else.

  You can try leaving a comment on the site and ask the existing owner if they will transfer it to you. If they will, this is the procedure they will use:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account

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  timethief · Member · Jun 28, 2012 at 2:21 am

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  If the person who owns the blog cannot be reached and/or will not trnafer it to you there is another option. You can purchase your own domain name via a domain mapping upgrade and then what the underlying .wordpress.com sub-domain URL is will not matter.

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  jccann · Member · Jun 28, 2012 at 6:49 am

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  Try blogger … From blogger’s web site:

  Remember that if you change your blog’s URL, you release the old URL for other bloggers to use.

  Too bad WP is so confused on the issue of dropping old / completely unused / never used blog names.