trying to get a certain name at wordpress, but is is only an example site of WP

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  cotocats · Member · Mar 7, 2015 at 4:29 am

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  Hi, I am trying to get the name ‘silkandsand’ at wordpress for my blog. It shows that this name has been taken, but when I try the URL it says that this is only an example site for wordpress. is there any way for me to get this Name????

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  jqubed · Member · Mar 7, 2015 at 4:39 am

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  https://silkandsand.wordpress.com/ doesn’t appear to be an example site, although it doesn’t have a lot of posts and still has a lot of default settings. https://silksand.wordpress.com/ is an example site, but it looks like it was just created. Is that a site you just created?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Mar 7, 2015 at 6:44 am

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  @cotocats
  You can try leaving a comment on that site asking the owner if they’d be willing to transfer the site to you, but that’s the only way you might get it. Staff will not transfer that site to you, no matter how long it has been inactive. See: http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/