Web address taken?

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  atarb · Member · Jul 26, 2013 at 9:46 pm

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  I’d like to use a particular web address, but it was taken by someone in January 2007, was never updated, has no posts, and remains without any content. There is probably no way to contact the original author, who appears regardless to speak German. The site has had no updates or traffic in 6 years.

  Is there any way that I might use the web address?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 26, 2013 at 9:47 pm

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  re: unused blogs

  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/