Blog is deleted by owner, but blogtitle still not available

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  spida2 · Member · Sep 19, 2010 at 4:00 pm

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  Hi,
  I want to register a blog under a certain name (chaningingtheworld.wordpress.com) but the registration routine says that the name is already taken. If you look it up though you are informed that this specific blog has been deleted by their authors. Why is the domain still unavailable? Is there any possibility to use it?

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  spida2

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 19, 2010 at 4:32 pm

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  Domain names are not recycled at WordPress.com. It will never become available. You can either pick another name or buy the domain upgrade and get Changingtheworld.com or .org or .net or .ca or whatever.

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  spida2 · Member · Sep 20, 2010 at 8:34 pm

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  @raincoaster: Thank you for your answer.
  I think this is a bad way to handle subdomains at wordpress.com.

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 20, 2010 at 8:46 pm

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  The WordPress.com logic does make sense: http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 20, 2010 at 8:57 pm

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  Yes, let’s say you have a christian blog here for years and then move it somewhere else and delete the blog here. Someone comes along and gets that blog name and puts up an adult site with pictures of nude people on it. Some of your visitors, that do not know you have moved come to the old site, see the nude pictures and have to go into therapy for years over the shock that you did that.