Using an inactive domain of someone else's?
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Hi I am very keen to create a new wordpress blog name theshadycat. The username has stuck with me for a while now and I really wanted to use this name. However, there is a user that already has this wordpress domain…. This user has not done anything with their blog. I wanted to know if there was any way I would be able to take over this domain if this user is absolutely not using their account for wordpress’s actual purpose. I cannot find any way of contacting staff so this will have to do :(
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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There is no expiration date on blogs unused, reserved or otherwise. If you can make contact on your own with the owner of an unused blog via a contact form or commenting, then providing the are agreeable 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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