According to Blogger Help This blog looks abandoned, can I have its address?
That's good news - if you're the blog owner. Short of your blog being hacked, what you publish will remain online - and your property, forever. Of course, your ability to maintain your blog and URL will be subject to your ability to maintain the account that administers the blog. And the future online status of the blog will be subject to how it's published, and its future after you're gone.
That's bad news - if you're the wanna be publisher to the URL, and that URL is not available.
Neither current blog content, nor publishing activity, is relevant to URL availability.
Periodically, we see the question
And, inevitably, the next question
The email address, for many Bloggers, is half of the authentication, to the account used for maintaining the blogs. Would you want Blogger giving out your email address to anybody who asked for it? Nope. So would you expect Blogger to give you somebody else's email address? You may, at your own discretion, publish your blog anonymously - and the other guy has the same option.
If you are setting up a new blog, pick an available URL, and get started, today. Don't waste your time, and other people's time, wishing for a URL that you want but can never have.
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#Blogger tells us that our blog will be ours, forever. This policy - which is the foundation for many other Blogger policies - can be either a blessing or a curse - to some blog owners, and other would be blog owners.
Blogger accounts and Blog*Spot addresses do not expire.
That's good news - if you're the blog owner. Short of your blog being hacked, what you publish will remain online - and your property, forever. Of course, your ability to maintain your blog and URL will be subject to your ability to maintain the account that administers the blog. And the future online status of the blog will be subject to how it's published, and its future after you're gone.
That's bad news - if you're the wanna be publisher to the URL, and that URL is not available.
Neither current blog content, nor publishing activity, is relevant to URL availability.
Periodically, we see the question
And the answer is, of courseI want to publish my blog to this URL. There's a blog at that address, but it hasn't been updated in years. Can Blogger give me that address?
No. See the Blogger Help postBlogger accounts and Blog*Spot addresses do not expire. Therefore, we can't take away somebody's blog address to give to you.Please choose an available URL.
And, inevitably, the next question
and that answer isCan Blogger help me contact the owner?
No. If you see an email address on the blog, use it.
The email address, for many Bloggers, is half of the authentication, to the account used for maintaining the blogs. Would you want Blogger giving out your email address to anybody who asked for it? Nope. So would you expect Blogger to give you somebody else's email address? You may, at your own discretion, publish your blog anonymously - and the other guy has the same option.
If you are setting up a new blog, pick an available URL, and get started, today. Don't waste your time, and other people's time, wishing for a URL that you want but can never have.
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#Blogger tells us that our blog will be ours, forever. This policy - which is the foundation for many other Blogger policies - can be either a blessing or a curse - to some blog owners, and other would be blog owners.
Comments
LOL. So does your comment.
Blogger's rule about this is insufficient. Sooner or later bloggers are going to have no choice but to go elsewhere!
Having this unused name is unproductive and unfair to those of us that want to do something meaningful with it. Another name that I also want has posted one blog in 2005, THAT'S IT.
We’re not asking Blogger to unprotect someone’s privacy by giving out their email address or any other info. Blogger is right, we wouldn’t want them to do this to us, however, this ‘solution’ by Blogger is not a solution.
Let's work out a productive solution for this problem, please.
If your idea of promoting your blog requires that you publish to "theURLthatIdemand.somelamedomain.com"
simply because you can't get "theURLthatIdemand.blogspot.com", then you (and probably Blogger) will be better off with you publishing to "theURLthatIdemand.somelamedomain.com".
BTW, you can't have "theURLthatIdemand.blogspot.com".
http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=41931
I provide my articles, which explain the issues in more details. If that offends you, then you are free to read any article that pleases you. Here is yet another (and yes, that one contains a link to my blog, too):
http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help/web/faqs
Sincerely,
Sherry
Thanks for your comment.
Blogs are published anonymously - and for very good reasons. Major world events have taken place, partly facilitated by anonymous blog publication.
Blogger blogs are available to everybody, equally. Blogger has no provision for people to buy the blog name of their choice - regardless of whether the blog is currently dormant.
If you're poor or rich, you can have any available blog name which you choose - and you have it for eternity. To have a paid service, allowing the rich to buy the blog name of their choice, would violate that promise.
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2009/12/blogger-doesnt-care-about-frequency-or.html
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2009/07/precedence-and-uniformity-justify.html