Possible to retrieve a reserved name?

  • dggrainge · Member ·

    The name I’d like to register (fowlb) is coming up as reserved. I suspect I may have made an abortive attempt to register that myself and have deleted it, therefore it has disappeared into the wordpress black hole of unusable websites.

    I’m asking first, but I guess I will be redirected to wordpress support; but at the moment the websites in case are freebie ones … how to get in touch.

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

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    That blog is reserved by a user with the same username who registered back in April 2012.

    If you do believe that is your WordPress.com account, please visit https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword and click “Need More Help?” if necessary.

  • dggrainge · Member ·

    Thanks, macmanx, and I’ve submitted an online request. Just for info, the ‘recovery’ form rejected me because fowlb.wordpress.com doesn’t exist, even though the name remains registered.
    Perhaps, and only if recovering a website, wordpress might admit to knowing about the registered but deleted name? Just a thought.
    No probs because I have submitted a request by fiddling the blog name. I’m sure once a human gets to read it, the request will make sense.

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    It’s not deleted, it’s reserved by a user with the same username, so you would need to gain access to that user account to use that blog.

  • dggrainge · Member ·

    Can two different people have the same username, dggrainge ??? Given I am invited to logon either with a username or a password, I would have thought usernames were unique?
    In which case, I’m dggrainge, I *can* logon with that name and I see no details about a reserved name on my blogs list.
    If there’s another account with an identical username I can understand WordPress being coy about details – but from my perspective, I’m getting confused about how to deal with the matter.

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    No, the username which reserved fowlb.wordpress.com is fowlb, that’s what I mean by “it’s reserved by a user with the same username.”

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