Unused domains

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  hamant25 · Member · Sep 10, 2013 at 9:14 pm

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  I really would like to establish a London blog about my life living in this city. I really like the name lovinglondon however someone has taken this domain. That is fair enough except when I checked the blog it was last edited in 2008 and has absolutely no content whatsoever. Do you clear unused domains after a certain point of inactivity? I would really like to make use of this domain name and it really appears as though the current user does not use it.

  Thank you.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 10, 2013 at 9:15 pm

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  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/