Would like to contact a person who owns the blog name I am after…

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  grantdmills · Member · Aug 4, 2013 at 9:11 am

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  I would like to register a new wordpress domain (onesmallworld.wordpress.com) and the person who owns it only ever posted once, and it was in 2009.

  The reason I require this domain in particular is that I own onesmallworld.com and would like to use the wordpress version as a transitionary blog while I have my other site constructed.

  Is it possible for WordPress to contact the owner and ask him to delete the blog and free up the domain name?

  Thanks,

  Grant

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Aug 4, 2013 at 7:25 pm

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  It make no difference at all what the .wordPress.com blog URL is when your domain mapping so let’s be clear about that. No matching URL is required at all. It can be any .wordpress.com URL.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 4, 2013 at 7:26 pm

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  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/