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Alright, I've been having lots of .Net passport problems. My age is wrong on this account, the email addresses are all out of date, and I cant log in to certain sites for some reason.

So heres my plan: I dont want to make a new Bungie.net identity because everyone around here already knows me. I'm wondering if I can do this:

Abolish this Bungie.net identity and the .net passport that goes along with it.

Create a new .net passport, and come back to Bungie.net with that one.

Create a new B.net identity, with the same one that I have now: Ranger7722. This would allow me to re-link my gamertag and all that good stuff which I cant currently do.

So my question is, if I destroy this account, then come back and try to take this name, what will happen?

  • 11.06.2005 6:47 PM PDT
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You can't just create a new account and take back the same name. The system has to delete your current account after a long while. Then after your current account is deleted, you have to wait even longer for the name to be available again.

The best way of getting your current account deleted would be to never log into it again for a very long, long time. It's not really worth all the trouble, if you ask me.

  • 11.06.2005 6:52 PM PDT
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Do you know if I could have a website dude delete it for me?

  • 11.06.2005 6:53 PM PDT
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Do the names ever become available again?

  • 11.06.2005 6:54 PM PDT
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Posted by: Sir Fragula
Do the names ever become available again?

Here's a good example: Ancient was once known as Snowmanaxt. Before that he was known as Ancient.

Yeah, they do become available again... I just don't know how long it takes. All I know is that it takes a very, very long time.

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  • 11.06.2005 6:56 PM PDT
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The names do become available again, as was proven with davester88.

You could delete your .net passport, create a new account with a similar name, and then wait for your old name to become available again. It might a year, but you get what you want.

  • 11.06.2005 6:57 PM PDT
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Posted by: Tazmaniandude
You can't just create a new account and take back the same name. The system has to delete your current account after a long while. Then after your current account is deleted, you have to wait even longer for the name to be available again.

The best way of getting your current account deleted would be to never log into it again for a very long, long time. It's not really worth all the trouble, if you ask me.


His post made sense, so I think the name would become available after my account is officially deleted. But wouldnt my name by deleted if I delete my .net passport?

I know that accounts are automatically deleted after a certain amount of inactivity, but I'm pretty sure if I delete my .net passport then I should be able to come right back and create a new one with this same name.

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Your name will hang around for a while even after your .net passport is deleted. You just won't be able to access it thus rendering it as inactive over a certain period of time.

  • 11.06.2005 6:58 PM PDT
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I'd just say make a new one with a similiar name like he said... but I'm basing this off of what everyone else has said so far. Because I did know that your name hangs around for a looong time, but I wasn't sure if there was anybody that could help you keep your name. So it sounds like you're pretty limited in options but best luck man

  • 11.06.2005 7:18 PM PDT

I believe that the member name is available for use again 60 days after it is deleted (or at least, it used to be).

But you can just change all your passport details (eg e-mail address, date of birth) at http://www.passport.net anyway.

  • 11.06.2005 8:13 PM PDT
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Ummm, there's something I would like to know...

See, I've been inactive for a looooong time (last message was posted on April, although I've come to read the Forums every now and then). Now, I didn't know that this would render my account useless, so I tried to log in, and obvioulsy I couldn't.

Therefore I made a new account (although I could pick the same name I had :P ).

The question is... all my old messages (thats it... my fourteen messages...) will be displayed as posted by an Anonymous User for ever and ever until the Closure?

(Damn, I liked too much my old "Member Since" date... XD )

  • 12.02.2005 10:00 AM PDT

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Your passport is identified to us as a big hexidecimal string called a PUID. This is then associated with a bungie.net login. If you delete your passport, then there is no way to access that bungie.net login ever again. It will eventually be deleted (as the system will detect that nobody has logged into it in a while). Once that happens, as with all deleted accounts, the login name is added to a list of "restricted names." These names cannot be used until they are removed from the list, generally 60 (maybe 90, I don't remember) days. After that point, a new account may claim the name. However, that new account doesn't get access to the deleted account's data - it knows you are a different user.

There will likely be a method added in the future to allow you to change which Passport your bungie.net account is associated with. Such a feature would allow you to "recover" a bungie.net account that hasn't been deleted to a new Passport, much like you can "recover" a gamertag to an Xbox while invalidating it on all other Xboxes.

This feature is some time away. I suggest that in the meantime, you create a Passport that you intend to use, and continue to use the other Passport at bungie.net until we have such a feature available. Then you can switch your bungie.net Passport to the newer one. The downside is that if you link you gamertag to the new one, you will have to manually look up your Halo 2 stats here. Unfortunately, that is the best we can offer you at the moment.

  • 12.02.2005 10:16 AM PDT
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shhhhhhh

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Imagine the chaos that would ensue, if someone were to "come back from the dead" as (some examples of old and no longer active account names) Surge, Ekim Zep, Zamamee, Prvt Pegleg, and a whole slew of members who either moved on, or forgot their Passport passwords.


Surge has a different account, he goes by the name Peithos now. Unless this Surge is a different person than what i'm thinking of.

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  • 12.02.2005 1:39 PM PDT
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Oh, then, since I could reuse my old name, I suppose my old account is dead for good. That will teach me!

  • 12.03.2005 7:52 AM PDT