A user has removed his blog by mistake

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  treeofbhakti108 · Member · Jan 26, 2014 at 5:18 am

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  Hi I have asked a user to free up a blog name for me as he was not using it. He did so for me and said please feel free to use it from now on. Little that I knew that this is not the right way of dealing with these situations and that it is possible to do this action by transferring a blog to another user.
  Is there any way to retrieve this blog name now with the permission of the previous owner? Thank you

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  tonybareham · Member · Jan 26, 2014 at 5:21 am

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  if its been deleted, its gone! end of!

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  treeofbhakti108 · Member · Jan 26, 2014 at 5:25 am

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  I really hope there is still some little hope…

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 26, 2014 at 5:51 am

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  Abandon all hope – deleted is gone forever – just like the many warnings that the person deleting the blog agreed to

  It is very easy to transfer a live blog to another account, takes less than 3 minutes

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  treeofbhakti108 · Member · Jan 26, 2014 at 6:02 am

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  I wish I knew this option before.

  There has to be some mercy towards mistakes. To err is human!

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jan 26, 2014 at 6:11 am

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  You can look into domain mapping if the name you want is available from a registrar:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/add-a-domain/

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  tonybareham · Member · Jan 26, 2014 at 6:12 am

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  Unfortunately deletion is final. There is about 3 warnings given and an email link to click to delete and once done there is no way back

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  treeofbhakti108 · Member · Jan 26, 2014 at 9:01 am

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  Thanks for all the responses. I guess I will have to try out that domain mapping thing. My hope is pretty dead now.