Why blog domain can’t be used again after deleting blog?
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Well, I have read FAQ, but I want realize (understand, comprehend?) it too. Can anybody explain it?
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Afraid, I’m not clever enough, or my english isn’t good enough.
I see, why they don’t want to delete ‘unused’ blogs. But I couldn’t see there, why not use blogs, that have been deleted by users. -
Perhaps this recent thread will help. In addition to the reasons stated in the FAQ, there is a real potential of mis-use of bloggers’ identities when this is allowed to occur:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=9151&page&replies=15#post-109758
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Take for example that you had a blog here for years and then you choose to delete it. Would you want someone else to be able to use the same name? I wouldn’t..
Btw ladycat, nice avatar. :)
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Ellaella, thank you. There really is discussion about my question as well. But there is no answer. drmiketemp said there, that “the policy had been changed”.
Where can I find anything about this change? May be, FAQ is old…Carocat, I can leave blog, delete all content, but not delete blog itself. It will be ‘unused’. So nobody will be able to use the same name. And if I want make the name free, I can delete blog. Now I can’t make the name free.
Thanks. :) Your avatar is nice too. And funny :) -
@ladycat
Volunteers have no other help to offer you. :( Never a week goes by without us having at least one blogger asking the same questions and expressing the same point of view that you have articulated – to no avail. The statement by our ex-moderator maybe old but nevertheless it is accurate. You can verify the accuracy of the FAQs link ellaella gave you with staff. http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/recycling-blog-names/ -
I don’t know what you mean about a change, the FAQ states that the name cannot be reused if you delete it and if you don’t delete it it.
Just to give you an example: A friend of mine was with a different bloghost and tranferred her content to her own site. She had quite strong views on a subject and within minutes of her deleting her old blog someone else took it and posted opposite views to hers.
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I don’t know what you mean about a change, the FAQ states that the name cannot be reused if you delete it and if you don’t delete it it.
Just to give you an example: A friend of mine was with a different bloghost and tranferred her content to her own site. She had quite strong views on a subject and within minutes of her deleting her old blog someone else took it and posted opposite views to hers.
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I don’t know what you mean about a change, the FAQ states that the name cannot be reused if you delete it and if you don’t delete it it.
Just to give you an example: A friend of mine was with a different bloghost and tranferred her content to her own site. She had quite strong views on a subject and within minutes of her deleting her old blog someone else took it and posted opposite views to hers.
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{waving to carocat}
“the policy had been changed”
FWIW the change that was referred to by our ex-moderator in the thread pointed to was an exception that was made for a staff member. And it gave rise to controversy.
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Basically, a staff member hijacked an existing username for himself. (Don’t worry, you are not going to lose your blog this way unless you are a man who managed to get his first name as a username, in which case I suggest you use your blog or risk losing it ;) )
It is highly unlikely that they will let you do the same unless you are a member or personal friend of staff, in which case you would hardly be posting here about it.
There isn’t really a reason why usernames can’t be recycled other than that they’re not geared up for it on the tech side; as far as I know they’re the only host which doesn’t allow deleted usernames to be re-registered. As they grow bigger and the namespace grows smaller it wouldn’t surprise me if they follow Six Apart’s lead and make it a paid option, but this would be a couple of years down the line.
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