transfer another wordpress site to me
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Dear Sir or Madam,
I’ve found that meteogroup.wordpress.com is already registered.
I’m an employee of MeteoGroup and would like to claim that site, because it was registered by an former team mate, which has left the company.How can I transfer that site to me?
Regards
Martin -
You cannot “claim” any site you did not register.
Companies, groups and organizations of any kind do not own blogs.
Every WordPress.COM blog has a sole owner. It is the person with the WordPress.COM username account who registered the blog under that username account and a single associated email address, and who is the original Admin of the blogs registered under that username account.
You have to be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard. The Admin login link to the dashboard for every blog hosted by wordpress.COM is:
http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/
* You will have to replace “name_of_blog” with the actual blog’s name in that URL.
After the blog’s owner logs in clicking this link should display all blogs registered under the same username account, including the hidden ones: https://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-blogs&show=hidden
If the blog’s owner does not see the blog here http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/ then they need to follow this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/#my-blogs-dashboard-visibility
If the log-in information is lost they need to visit https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword
If you do not have the required access you need to contact the employee who registered these account and site under it and have them transfer the site to your username account by using this process. http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account
If you check each and every possible email address and account and are not successful gaining access to the blog(s) then you must complete the form for account recovery at this link https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=recovery and submit it to the Account Recovery Staff, and provide proof ownership, so they can contact you by email ie. not on these public support forums, which are available to everyone with internet access.
Support Staff cannot breach the privacy policy and provide the log-in information. You have to provide proof ownership to Account Recovery Staff to gain access https://en.support.wordpress.com/account-recovery/
If you cannot provide proof ownership to Account Recovery Staff, so they can contact you by email ie. not on these public support forums, which are available to everyone with internet access, then you have reached a dead end.
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Hi Martin –
The owner of that site would need to initiate the transfer of ownership over to you. Please read over these instructions.
Transferring a Site to Another WordPress.com Account
I’ve sent an email to the owner of the site on your behalf.
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Awesome, thank you for you support, Liz.
If necessary I can proof I work for MeteoGroup with my business email. -
For now, we need to sit tight and wait to hear back from the site owner. If you have any other contact information you can try to use and just ask that they reply to my email so that you can move forward with the transfer.
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