Blog Name availability

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  funkycat · Member · Apr 28, 2015 at 3:09 pm

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  How come once a blog has been deleted the name is no longer available? I’m trying to build a site for a friend and the name he chose says its not available so I went to the site and it says its no longer available the author deleted the site. So why doesn’t the name become available after some one deletes their blog?

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  timethief · Member · Apr 28, 2015 at 11:39 pm

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  The policy is here https://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

  Site deletions are permanent. No exceptions are made.

  Your friend can register another .wordpress.com blog here http://en.support.wordpress.com/register-a-blog/

  Then if they wish to they 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/