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Subject: Bungie.net passport
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I have a question, when I sing up for a net.passport my passport had some problems so I canceled my passport and sing up a new one but under the same name and for some reason even though I cancaled my acount it still says that it is not a unique name there for I can not use it even though I cancled it why?.

Thanks.

I posted some thing else on this same page and vella answered it.
I have another question and I dident want to have several post in the septagon so I just edited this post.

[Edited on 2/7/2005 3:57:08 PM]

  • 02.07.2005 3:32 PM PDT
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The Green Cross means open, the Exclamation Mark means stickied, and the red, barred circle means locked.

You can't change them. They are assigned to your posts by moderators.

  • 02.07.2005 3:36 PM PDT
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I have the same problem. I closed my .net account and now I cant get on my bungie.net account

  • 02.07.2005 4:54 PM PDT

Tom Achronos
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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."

When you "close" a .net passport, you close that account, and turn off the passport's "PUID". The PUID is the unique string that bungie.net uses to identify you - we never see the login email you use. Here's the catch - if you create a new passport using the same login, it is assigned a different PUID, so to bungie.net, you are a different user.

So, closing a passport doesn't delete your bungie.net account that uses it. Eventually, that account will be deleted due to inactivity. However, even after that account is deleted, the login name is held for 90 extra days so nobody attempts to claim it immediately and pretend they are the just deleted user.

So, unfortunately, you're going to have to create a new account with a different name. In the future, I would suggest NEVER closing a passport unless you are sure you don't need access to any account it is used for. Furthermore, I suggest that you don't use a hotmail.com or msn.com email as your passport, because you can't ever change that login if you want to without closing the passport. Other email logins can be changed using the passport.net management site.

  • 02.07.2005 4:59 PM PDT
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I wish I knew all that before I killed my old account.

  • 02.07.2005 8:09 PM PDT
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so how long does it take to become inactive. just making sure I am understanding you correctly: once it becomes inactive I can make a new account with that same name after 90 days?

[Edited on 2/10/2005 11:11:03 AM]

  • 02.10.2005 11:10 AM PDT