Are deleted sites ever available again for claiming?

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  inerdgrrl · Member · Jul 8, 2014 at 4:20 pm

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  I’ve been hoping the “nerdgrrl” URL becomes available again someday…

  nerdgrrl.wordpress.com is no longer available.
  The authors have deleted this site.

  Is that likely to ever happen? Does a deleted site remain “locked up” forever?

  Prairie Nyx
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  timethief · Member · Jul 8, 2014 at 4:22 pm

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  no You cannot recover or register any deleted blog URL. Deleted blog URLs are not recycled, regardless of who registered and deleted them and no exceptions are made.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

  To prevent accidental or inadvertent deletion of blogs, there are multiple warnings given that blog deletion is permanent and irreversible. Lastly, a verification link is sent in an email and it must be clicked to delete a blog. If clicking that link does not work then copy and paste it into your upper browser window and click. Once the verification link for deletion is clicked the blog URL is forever gone, gone, gone.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/

  You can register another .wordpress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/register-a-blog/

  Then if you wish to you can register a domain via a domain mapping upgrade because it does not matter what the underlying .wordpress.com address is when you are domain mapping.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/