Unused Blog Names

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  samcarlton · Member · Feb 1, 2013 at 5:32 pm

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  I am trying to set up a blog for updates and news in the digital & technology spheres around the world, all the good names are already taken – my first choice was digitalworld.blogspot.com – on investigation of this blog, it is completely unused since it was registered in 2005, without a single post on it. Is there any way that these unused and great sounding names can be freed up if they are clearly not being used for their desired intent?
  Thanks, Sam.

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  notawoodpecker · Member · Feb 1, 2013 at 6:02 pm

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  my first choice was digitalworld.blogspot.com

  Well, for one thing, that’s not a wordpress.com name, but even if it was ……

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

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  samcarlton · Member · Feb 1, 2013 at 11:08 pm

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  Sorry, I typo’d while making the post – I did mean digitalworld.wordpress.com, thanks for the response. It’s a slightly different situation as this isn’t as such a deleted blog – rather one that was registered and unused since 2005, but I guess the same principle applies. oh well.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 1, 2013 at 11:11 pm

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  Hi there,
  There is no expiration date on blogs unused or otherwise. If you can make contact on your own with the owner of an unused blog then 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/

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  samcarlton · Member · Feb 1, 2013 at 11:24 pm

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  thanks for the follow up, I have made contact and will await to see if something comes back – if not I will make a different one, it was just slightly frustrating when I tried to make a new blog that my first 15 or 20 choices were all already taken, and then to find that 99% of those haven’t been used for years.