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  andrewallen · Member · Nov 25, 2013 at 10:19 am

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  Hi there,

  Two questions – I’ve an old externally hosted blog still appearing in my wordpress account – http://www.andrewallen.co.uk/. Could this be removed?

  Secondly, I used to have a blog on andrewallen.wordpress.com – could this be restored, even if to a blank site, so I can reuse the domain name andrewallen.wordpress.com, as I then plan to map my domain andrewallen.co.uk back to wordpress?

  Thanks for your help.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Nov 25, 2013 at 4:25 pm

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  1. Yes. You can’t delete it but Staff can. Provided you post the URLs of self hosted blogs you want deleted from your account into a forum thread like this one, Staff can do this for you. Please do that now as I tagged this thread for their assistance. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 25, 2013 at 4:29 pm

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  2. 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/

  The good news is It does not matter a feather or fig what the underlying .wordpress.com sub-domain URL is when you are domain mapping. You can register any URL and map to the domain from it.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/register-a-blog/

  See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  Dashboard > Store > My Upgrades is where you do the primary blog set up knowing it can take between 24 – 72 hours for domain name propagation to take place throughout the internet. You can view the DNS changes here > http://www.whatsmydns.net/ What’s important during that stage is to be patient.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Nov 26, 2013 at 1:23 pm

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  Hi there,

  I removed the self-hosted blog http://www.andrewallen.co.uk/ from your account, as requested. Please let me know if I can provide any further help!

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  andrewallen · Member · Nov 26, 2013 at 4:38 pm

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  Thank you timethief, rachelmcr – I can confirm this is now resolved.

  I’ve setup a new wordpress subdomain, onto which I’ll map my external domain name.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 6:19 am

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  Best wishes with your new blog.