Site takeover

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  milicalewis · Member · Mar 31, 2015 at 6:55 pm

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  Hi, I have been trying to get a specific wordpress name/site only to find it has already been taken by someone in 2010 who has never done anything with it. Is it possible to take the site over in some way?

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  milicalewis · Member · Mar 31, 2015 at 6:56 pm

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  Hi, I have been trying to get a specific wordpress name/site only to find it has already been taken by someone in 2010 who has never done anything with it. Is it possible to take the site over in some way?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 31, 2015 at 6:57 pm

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  There is no expiration date on .wordpress.com 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/