Can I have the doamin name of a dormant blog?

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  rbwilliams207 · Member · Jan 7, 2013 at 10:45 pm

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  Can you contact domain owner to see if they will shut it down. mainstreet.wordpress.com started in 2006 and is parked with zero activity. I am actually going to use my domain and would like to claim it. Can this be done?

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

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  notawoodpecker · Member · Jan 7, 2013 at 10:50 pm

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  WP will not contact them for you.

  If you can’t contact them, you’re out of luck.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Jan 7, 2013 at 11:39 pm

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  @rbwilliams207

  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/

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