Registered name not in use

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  xzlcreative · Member · Nov 8, 2011 at 3:40 pm

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  I would like to change my blog name to my own name, which then I would register as a .com domain however the name already exists. However I have already check it, it does not seem to be in use. Is there anyway I could use the domain name and put it to good use?

  Address is http://www.leonli.wordpress.com
  I would like to register it as http://www.leonli.com as my personal design blog and portfolio, please, if you could give me some help and rectify this problem, thank you.
  Blog url: http://xzlcreative.wordpress.com/

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  designsimply · Member · Nov 8, 2011 at 4:35 pm

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  We do not recycle blog names and so you cannot have a wordpress.com domain if it is already taken by someone else. You can setup a custom domain over the top of any wordpress.com blog name though! Here are the steps to do that: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/