Who owns my ID?

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  lily839 · Member · Oct 11, 2012 at 11:04 pm

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  I just set up a WordPress username (lily839) and went to use it to post a comment on a blog, and it kicked out with a WordPress page saying “You do not own that identity.” What went wrong?
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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Oct 11, 2012 at 11:34 pm

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  Were you trying to comment on a Blogger/Blogspot blog with WordPress.com as your OpenID source?

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  lily839 · Member · Oct 12, 2012 at 5:14 pm

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  Yes! Thanks for figuring that out! I should have stipulated it myself. Can’t wait for your reply!

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Oct 12, 2012 at 7:02 pm

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  You’ll need to have a public blog registered at lily839.wordpress.com in order for that to work.

  You can register that by visiting https://signup.wordpress.com/signup/ while logged in.