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  vogueinfatuation · Member · Dec 26, 2014 at 4:30 pm

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  Hi, I was wanting to change my blog website name, however someone has taken it. The person who is currently using the user name appears to be inactive and hasn’t posted since 2009. The name I’d like is http://www.vanitycorner.wordpress.com . I was wondering if there was anyway around this since that person is inactive?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 26, 2014 at 11:10 pm

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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/