Sitting on WordPress Url

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  fernofgildehorn · Member · Feb 4, 2015 at 6:09 pm

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  Hi, I recently started a blog and was looking for a particular url for it. I have looked up the blog and it seems that no one has ever posted on it and the blog was started over six years ago. Do I have any chance of obtaining this address?

  I have tried contacting the owner/administrator ( tried commenting on the blog ) to no avail. I understand some of the wordpress policy about this, though I feel this situation is unique ~ As this blog has never been posted on and it just seems that the user is sitting on the url

  Any help is appreciated

  ( the blog in question https://violetstory.wordpress.com/ )

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

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  timethief · Member · Feb 4, 2015 at 6:10 pm

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  There is no expiration date on 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/