Username for my business taken but not by me!
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Hi,
I did a search but i’ve not found any help for this – I wish to register on wordpress.com under my business name, but it says the name I want to register is taken. I have tried visiting the url I wish to use and it gives me:The address givemegimmicks.wordpress.com cannot be registered. Sorry, that site is reserved! But you can sign up and choose another one.
This is my business name and I was hoping someone from WordPress would be able to help me figure out why it is taken (It is not by me or anyone in my business) as this is obviously a problem and I need to be able to contact WordPress about it.
Thanks,
Sarah (Owner of Give Me Gimmicks) -
You may own the business called Give Me Gimmicks but you do not own the blog URLs here or anywhere else automatically because you own that business.
6 month ago someone registered this username account https://en.forums.wordpress.com/profile/givemegimmicks
When we register a username account the matching blog is reserved for our future use. It cannot be obtained by anyone other than the person who has registered the matching username account.
If and only if you have the matching username account then the blog is reserved for you and you will be able to log in appropriately and register it after logging in under the correct username account.
https://signup.wordpress.com/signup/?user=1However, if you changed your username then the blog URL will not be available for use under the new username account.
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I am aware that I do not own the blog url just because I have the name. I wanted to established why it was ‘reserved’ – which is what you have explained – I think.
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Hi again,
From time to time we get people posting here who think they do own blog URLs that reflect their business names. I am so glad that you are not confused about that. Yes, I explained why it has been reserved. Maybe you did the reserving or maybe not.
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