WordPress.com Forums » Topic: taking over old unused, deleted blog addresses http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/taking-over-old-unused-deleted-blog-addresses WordPress.com Forums » Topic: taking over old unused, deleted blog addresses en Sat, 25 May 2013 05:52:07 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 raincoaster on "taking over old unused, deleted blog addresses" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/taking-over-old-unused-deleted-blog-addresses#post-883338 Thu, 10 May 2012 14:41:22 +0000 raincoaster 883338@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I, personally, enjoy hearing that ning suffered.

]]> willgolden on "taking over old unused, deleted blog addresses" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/taking-over-old-unused-deleted-blog-addresses#post-883336 Thu, 10 May 2012 14:39:44 +0000 willgolden 883336@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It was either grou.ps or ning that suffered this some years ago!

]]> raincoaster on "taking over old unused, deleted blog addresses" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/taking-over-old-unused-deleted-blog-addresses#post-883335 Thu, 10 May 2012 14:38:52 +0000 raincoaster 883335@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ None whatsoever. You are welcome to try, but I'd suggest blocking out a whole afternoon for it.

]]> willgolden on "taking over old unused, deleted blog addresses" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/taking-over-old-unused-deleted-blog-addresses#post-883333 Thu, 10 May 2012 14:34:04 +0000 willgolden 883333@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ So, Raincoaster, ....a malicious poster with existing sampling software could effectively close down WordPress by exhausting all blog address permutations!

What contingency does WordPress have to prevent this?

]]> auxclass on "taking over old unused, deleted blog addresses" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/taking-over-old-unused-deleted-blog-addresses#post-883328 Thu, 10 May 2012 14:32:17 +0000 auxclass 883328@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

returntoeden.wordpress.com is no longer available.

The authors have deleted this blog.

As @raincoaster stated above - gone is gone

]]> willgolden on "taking over old unused, deleted blog addresses" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/taking-over-old-unused-deleted-blog-addresses#post-883325 Thu, 10 May 2012 14:30:35 +0000 willgolden 883325@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The proof went missing......
http://returntoeden.wordpress.com/#!/fresh/
returntoeden dot wordpress dot com slash hash exclamation slash fresh slash


hope it's still there this time

]]> raincoaster on "taking over old unused, deleted blog addresses" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/taking-over-old-unused-deleted-blog-addresses#post-883323 Thu, 10 May 2012 14:27:45 +0000 raincoaster 883323@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Deleted blog URLs are never re-used. Never.

]]> willgolden on "taking over old unused, deleted blog addresses" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/taking-over-old-unused-deleted-blog-addresses#post-883321 Thu, 10 May 2012 14:26:54 +0000 willgolden 883321@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ My blog is subject-specific and the only titles that really make sense are - EdenRevisited.wordpress.com, - BackToEden.wordpress.com or - ReturnToEden.wordpress.com. All other less relevant, unsatisfactory titles are already under use anyway.

The former two, "Eden Revisited" and "Back to Eden" are still being used; .....fair enough!

The last-named blog, "Return to Eden", however, is no longer used.
Here is the proof. "The authors have deleted this blog"

So how do we get it released so that it can be re-used?

If it cannot.... we are on very dodgy ground here. If someone took a dislike to WordPress, ......he could very easily use existing sampling software to flood WordPress with every permutation of blog-address in the English language and make it impossible to open another blog.

Surely WordPress must have a contingency to avoid this. Therefore it must be possible to release old unused blog-names, effectively by deletion.

So, given this, how do I take over the old blog-address ReturnToEden.wordpress.com?

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