WordPress.com Forums » Tag: reserved blogs - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/reserved-blogs WordPress.com Forums » Tag: reserved blogs - Recent Posts en Sun, 26 May 2013 03:58:18 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 timethief on "Is it possible to free a "reserved site"?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/is-it-possible-to-free-a-reserved-site#post-1251308 Wed, 01 May 2013 20:26:53 +0000 timethief 1251308@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ re: reserved blogs
When we register a username account the matching blog is reserved for our future use. It cannot be obtained by anyone other than the person who has registered the matching username account.

re: unused blogs

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/

]]> timethief on "Is it possible to free a "reserved site"?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/is-it-possible-to-free-a-reserved-site#post-1251304 Wed, 01 May 2013 20:26:06 +0000 timethief 1251304@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ No

]]> corleonis8 on "Is it possible to free a "reserved site"?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/is-it-possible-to-free-a-reserved-site#post-1251300 Wed, 01 May 2013 20:25:09 +0000 corleonis8 1251300@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi, my name is Cor Leonis and I am a professional artist / actor, I would like to register the blog corleonis.wordpress.com for a new blog/portfolio, it is said that it is reserved but is not in used and has not been for years, is it possible to free it up so I can use it?

]]> amightywp on "How to get an abandoned/stale domain back in to the pool?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-get-an-abandonedstale-domain-back-in-to-the-pool#post-1214341 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:39:43 +0000 amightywp 1214341@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi there everyone!

I completely understand you wanting to make sure that you have both the precise username and password that matches your passion, your business name, or your online identity (or all three!), @tinybookguy. But you should keep in mind the role that custom domains play in WordPress.com's environment.

If you have a custom domain in our system (which you say you do) and you choose to map it to your WordPress.com blog, no one will ever see your xxxxxxxx.wordpress.com address except for you, and you'll only see that when you're logging in to the Dashboard when you're making changes to your site or posting (and not necessarily even when posting, give the wide variety of other ways in which you can post!). Your viewers will always just see your domain.

While it may be frustrating that you cannot reclaim sites or usernames that have come before, we find that it is in keeping with our company vision.

I hope this clears things up for you a bit!

]]> timethief on "I want a certain domain name that wordpress tells me is taken, however if I type" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-want-a-certain-domain-name-that-wordpress-tells-me-is-taken-however-if-i-type#post-1214320 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:24:17 +0000 timethief 1214320@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You can enter the top of the thread and mark it "resolved" but beyond that I'm sorry the answer is "no".

Always be aware that you are posting to a public forum, and that forum topics may only be deleted if they represent a valid security or personal safety concern. http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpresscom-forums-code-of-conduct?replies=1

]]> joyinthemidstof on "I want a certain domain name that wordpress tells me is taken, however if I type" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-want-a-certain-domain-name-that-wordpress-tells-me-is-taken-however-if-i-type#post-1214312 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:21:36 +0000 joyinthemidstof 1214312@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you timethief, I completely understand now.

Also, is it posisble to have this thread deleted? I didn't realize when I posted that it would display my user name and blog address.

]]> 1tess on "How to get an abandoned/stale domain back in to the pool?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-get-an-abandonedstale-domain-back-in-to-the-pool#post-1213085 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 17:25:45 +0000 1tess 1213085@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, well I'll put a modlook tag on this thread so staff will see it and respond.

But there are ways that Automatic uses wp.com which may not be obvious: they constantly update and experiment with this platform and in many ways we are guinea pigs, with free hosting, for the WordPress.ORG software. There are upgrades here to add to the experience, and (apparently) the cost is offset by the adverts wp.com places on our blogs.

]]> tinybookguy on "How to get an abandoned/stale domain back in to the pool?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-get-an-abandonedstale-domain-back-in-to-the-pool#post-1213066 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 17:12:22 +0000 tinybookguy 1213066@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hello 1tess, I understand what you are saying, that contributions come from members and are simply their opinions, just as my comments are my opinions.
Part of my intention in posting my opinions is that I had hoped that perhaps somebody in the higher echelons of the company would read the thread and realize that, while their policy is honorable, they are reducing the number of "good" blogs in favor of not offending somebody that doesn't care, or who has moved on years ago.
I think that part of the "challenge", at the start of all this, is that there doesn't seem to be an easy way, or any way?, to contact somebody in the support department of WordPress, unless you purchase one of the higher plans/programs.
I don't think any further comments on my part will add to the quality/usefulness of this thread, so I will leave it here.
All the best.

]]> 1tess on "How to get an abandoned/stale domain back in to the pool?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-get-an-abandonedstale-domain-back-in-to-the-pool#post-1213053 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:59:00 +0000 1tess 1213053@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Please realize that this is, for the most part, a peer to peer support forum so you are talking to fellow bloggers, volunteers who have no say in the policies set by WordPress.com. As such you are reading opinions of wp.com users.

The links provided by timethief refer to the support documents written and posted by WordPress.com. They are the long-standing position of WordPress.com.

]]> tinybookguy on "How to get an abandoned/stale domain back in to the pool?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-get-an-abandonedstale-domain-back-in-to-the-pool#post-1213040 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:49:21 +0000 tinybookguy 1213040@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for the replies.
Firstly, as I said, if this is the policy, then so be it: that is the right of the folks running this place. I don't have to understand it, I don't have to like it, it's their house, their rules, I accept that. However, for those that are perhaps less savy in the ways of business, eventually this model falls apart. Why do you think that ".com" has now become ".everything"?
My point in all of this, which seems to be missed, is that, just like the internet, eventually Squatters will possess a significant number of the domains, domains that other people could put to good use. I do own the domain associated with my blog, and, as you can probably tell, I was still in the process of getting my blog set-up. The reason I originally posted the question is that I have several other sites that I am interested in and the names are stale. I know this because the original blog owner explicitly said, "I am out of here, won't be back...etc" as of 2009.
So here is a question: Why would I put http://www.mydomain.com on the WordPress servers, and pay them, when http://www.mydomain.wordpress.com is owned by somebody else? Would that make sense to you? I'm not being sarcastic, I am truly curious as to what you think.

]]> 1tess on "How to get an abandoned/stale domain back in to the pool?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-get-an-abandonedstale-domain-back-in-to-the-pool#post-1213013 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:25:12 +0000 1tess 1213013@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ There is also the viewpoint from a wp.com user who appreciates that an abandoned, reserved, or unused name/account/url won't be claimed by someone else after a period of time. The security of knowing one is able to come back even after years to a blog or site is valuable.

Knowing that some other person who does not have the same intentions as I won't be able to take my name in future is worthwhile to me. I'd hate to see a mature blog replacing my kitchen site for example.

]]> auxclass on "How to get an abandoned/stale domain back in to the pool?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-get-an-abandonedstale-domain-back-in-to-the-pool#post-1213007 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:20:01 +0000 auxclass 1213007@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ And if you read the reasons given by WordPress.COM for the policy - their policy is a great respect for the privacy of the original blog owner - People register and don't use blog names for many reasons - change of plans, temporary health or other issues, grand plans that did not quite work out, keeping a name that connects to them personally from being used by others (some companies also do this) - some people put blogs here because the blog will live on without needing to be added to (memorials to friends is one of many examples, others do history of an area (I have a site for history) )

]]> timethief on "How to get an abandoned/stale domain back in to the pool?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-get-an-abandonedstale-domain-back-in-to-the-pool#post-1213000 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:12:32 +0000 timethief 1213000@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ If you are serious about blogging over the long term then purchasing your own domain name and the very affordable domain mapping upgrade are the way to go.

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/

]]> tinybookguy on "How to get an abandoned/stale domain back in to the pool?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-get-an-abandonedstale-domain-back-in-to-the-pool#post-1212999 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:11:20 +0000 tinybookguy 1212999@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I appreciate the response, thank you.
As I mentioned elsewhere:
"I know that every company has the right to do as they choose, and being the biggest blog site on the net, you can certainly afford to turn away people, but this is your business model? Sites that people want to use, that they might pay for, are left vacant for eternity because you aren't willing to stale date it: in many cases after 5 or more years.
Wow, I wish my company had the luxury of turning away paying customers."

]]> timethief on "How to get an abandoned/stale domain back in to the pool?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-get-an-abandonedstale-domain-back-in-to-the-pool#post-1212990 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:01:50 +0000 timethief 1212990@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ re: unused blogs

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/

re: reserved blogs
When we register a username account the matching blog is reserved for our future use. It cannot be obtained by anyone other than the person who has registered the matching username account.

re: deleted blogs
You cannot claim a deleted blog URL. No one can use a deleted blog URL regardless of who registered it. Deleted blog URLs are not recycled here. You can confirm by reading:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/delete-blog/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

]]> tinybookguy on "How to get an abandoned/stale domain back in to the pool?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-get-an-abandonedstale-domain-back-in-to-the-pool#post-1212983 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:55:58 +0000 tinybookguy 1212983@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ There is a domain that I would like to use, actually numerous ones that I have tried, and in this particular case, the user has said that they will no longer be using it as of 2009. It hasn't been updated since. So, with me not being able to contact customer support to ask the question, does anybody out there know how to get the process rolling to have the name, or names in general, added back to the "available" pool?

Thanks in advance for any help.
Karl

]]> timethief on "I want a certain domain name that wordpress tells me is taken, however if I type" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-want-a-certain-domain-name-that-wordpress-tells-me-is-taken-however-if-i-type#post-1212622 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:46:11 +0000 timethief 1212622@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ re: reserved blogs
When we register a username account the matching blog is reserved for our future use. It cannot be obtained by anyone other than the person who has registered the matching username account.

re: deleted blogs
You cannot claim a deleted blog URL. No one can use a deleted blog URL regardless of who registered it. Deleted blog URLs are not recycled here. You can confirm by reading:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/delete-blog/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

]]> timethief on "I want a certain domain name that wordpress tells me is taken, however if I type" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-want-a-certain-domain-name-that-wordpress-tells-me-is-taken-however-if-i-type#post-1212620 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:44:26 +0000 timethief 1212620@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ re: unused blogs

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/

]]> joyinthemidstof on "I want a certain domain name that wordpress tells me is taken, however if I type" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-want-a-certain-domain-name-that-wordpress-tells-me-is-taken-however-if-i-type#post-1212589 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:04:38 +0000 joyinthemidstof 1212589@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ What if the domain name I want is taken

]]> timethief on "Transfer of Site Ownership" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/transfer-of-site-ownership#post-1110671 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:54:44 +0000 timethief 1110671@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

fhsvball.wordpress.com is no longer available.
The authors have deleted this blog.

Please take note that note that deleted blog URLs are not recycled.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

]]> auxclass on "Transfer of Site Ownership" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/transfer-of-site-ownership#post-1110668 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:53:50 +0000 auxclass 1110668@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

fhsvball.wordpress.com is no longer available.

The authors have deleted this blog.

The name is not available - once a blog name is deleted it can't be used again by anyone - you will need to find a different name if you want to use WordPress.COM

]]> timethief on "Transfer of Site Ownership" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/transfer-of-site-ownership#post-1110667 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:53:31 +0000 timethief 1110667@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Unless you own ie. registered the matching username account the answer is "no".

When we register a username account the matching blog is "reserved" for our future use and there is no expiration date. Usernames can be turned into blog addresses, but blog addresses cannot be turned into usernames. For most usernames and blog addresses are the same. That reserved blog cannot be obtained by anyone other than the person who has registered the matching username.

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/

]]> grutzbo on "Transfer of Site Ownership" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/transfer-of-site-ownership#post-1110660 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:48:06 +0000 grutzbo 1110660@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I am the new volleyball coach at Franklin HS in Seattle. The school's website contains a link to a site named http://www.fhsvball.wordpress.com/ The wordpress site reflects that the site is no longer available. Is it possible to assume that site and/or name?

]]> timethief on "Obtaining a Reserved Address?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/obtaining-a-reserved-address#post-1107465 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:55:49 +0000 timethief 1107465@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ When we register a username account the matching blog is "reserved" for our future use and there is no expiration date. Usernames can be turned into blog addresses, but blog addresses cannot be turned into usernames. For most usernames and blog addresses are the same. That reserved blog cannot be obtained by anyone other than the person who has registered the matching username.

]]> r87mercer on "Obtaining a Reserved Address?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/obtaining-a-reserved-address#post-1107446 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:42:06 +0000 r87mercer 1107446@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The requested address is perpendiculart.wordpress.com

]]> r87mercer on "Obtaining a Reserved Address?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/obtaining-a-reserved-address#post-1107445 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:41:40 +0000 r87mercer 1107445@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Can I obtain a reserved address?

]]> sweetsoulkitty on "Move blog to new account" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/move-blog-to-new-account#post-1032137 Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:13:08 +0000 sweetsoulkitty 1032137@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I made a new account with a new user name. I transferred my blog. Once I did that, it allowed me to update my user name on my new account. Hope this helps :)

]]> timethief on "Opting to NOT validate a WP domain" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/opting-to-not-validate-a-wp-domain#post-1013086 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:25:19 +0000 timethief 1013086@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ No it will not be available as when we register a username account the matching blog is "reserved" and there is no expiration date. Usernames can be turned into blog addresses, but blog addresses cannot be turned into usernames. For most usernames and blog addresses are the same. When we register a WordPress.com username account the matching blog is automatically reserved for our future use. That reserved blog cannot be obtained by anyone other than the person who has registered the matching username.

]]> reikiwaves on "Opting to NOT validate a WP domain" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/opting-to-not-validate-a-wp-domain#post-1013084 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:23:16 +0000 reikiwaves 1013084@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ After setting up the blog noted below, we have decided not to use it. We have not responded to the validation emails.

Will the name eventually expire? Will the name then be available to someone else? That would be our goal. It's a good name, in our estimation, and would like to see someone use it in the future if they so desire. Thanks.
Blog url: http://reikiwaves.wordpress.com/

]]> timethief on "reserved site" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/reserved-site#post-1009579 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:03:28 +0000 timethief 1009579@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome.

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