wordpress.com Domain that is taken but isn't being used.

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  efirouz · Member · Sep 30, 2014 at 12:58 am

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  I would like to get a wordpress.com domain that is taken but isn’t being used. I’d like to start this blog as a jumping off point for a podcast I’d like to start.

  I’ve never used wordpress and wanted to toy around with it to get everything set up before launching the podcast and purchasing the domain name.

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  lizthefair · Member · Sep 30, 2014 at 1:20 am

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  I’m afraid once a wordpress.com domain is taken, there is no way to re-use it. This article explains the rationale behind that decision: http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

  One way that users work around this problem is to use the domain mapping update to get the site name they want ( like yourwebsite.com rather than yourwebsite.wordpress.com). Then the underlying domain name doesn’t matter so much. Here’s more on how domain mapping works: http://en.support.wordpress.com/add-a-domain/

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 30, 2014 at 1:41 am

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  You can try contacting the blog owner and see if they would be willing to transfer the blog to you – but you are on your own for contacting the blogger as WordPress.COM will not help or give you contact info for privacy reasons