account Username: Blue

Hello! My older brother's been looking for a friendly online community to invest his spare time in, and I've recently sparked his interest in Neoseeker.

He gets a little obsessive compulsive, though. He really wants the username 'Blue', but it's already taken. The account is here, and as you can see it's inactive. I was just reading the name change request thread and learned that an account is considered 'defunct' after 1 year of inactivity. The person who has already taken the 'Blue' username has had 0 (lol yes, zero) logins and has not a single record of activity; it will also become 1 year old in just over three weeks.

I went through heaps of username-related threads on this board and I'm guessing things like these are all too frequent and just an inconvenience for the people in charge. But I did notice in this thread that a guest expressed the desire to take an inactive username and received his wish.

Just wondering if my brother could be welcomed to the site with a similar act of kindness? Would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the reply, Guugley.

So you're saying I should contact Inhale and see if he'll transfer ownership of the account?

Thanks Rune Ripper. Who would be best out of the staff to talk to, and how would I go about asking? I take it a PM will do?

Literally the only thing one must do to take over a defunct account is to register a new one with the name. Nobody need be contacted. At all. Trust me on this. Once that one year has passed, hit the regular old Register link, put "Blue" in the username field, and the rest is history.

What happens to the current Blue account? It's not deleted. The name gets changed to something like Blue23.

We can try mentioning some people and see if anything can be done.

Redemption tekmosis Dynamite

It's been sorted out. Check your inbox, Korra.

Korra - Taken care of. One of the unfortunate flaws in taking an old name through this method is that it also inherits any restrictions on the account. ^__^

No problem. Sorry for the trouble! Glad to have you here!