Request to purchase or transfer ownership of parked WordPress domain name

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  lightningkroq · Member · Aug 18, 2010 at 5:02 am

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  I own a company called Western Division and noticed that westerndivision.wordpress.com has been registered but has not been used. It appears to be parked. How can I contact the owner to request a transfer?

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  supportbot · Member · Aug 18, 2010 at 5:02 am

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  You did not specify a blog address or reason for posting when you created this topic.

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  justjennifer · Member · Aug 18, 2010 at 5:39 am

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  Try contacting the blog owner by leaving a comment on their blog.

  Signing up for a blog on WordPress.com is free and it costs nothing to transfer a blog. http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 18, 2010 at 5:42 am

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  WordPress.com does not delete or transfer unused blogs to different users. Your best bet would be to leave a comment on that blog in hopes that the owner will contact you and transfer the blog to you. Only the owner of the blog can do that.

  You could see if westerndivision.com, or western-division.com, or westerndiv.com, or something similar is available to register. If it is, then you could use the domain mapping here to map that new domain name to a blog here and have your own custom domain name.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/