Can a domain I accidently deleted be restored?

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  skinfragile · Member · May 31, 2020 at 8:39 am

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  Hello
  I deleted a domain skinfragile.wordpress.com a while ago on accident. I thought for years it could not be restored, but now I see – from others posts with the same issue – that there might me an option to restore it? I would very much like to know who that goes or if you can help me with that!

  Kind regards!
  Sofie Wouters

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  skinfragile · Member · May 31, 2020 at 8:44 am

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  Also the blog allergoskin.wordpress.com, I’d like to restore. I think I deleted them, thinking I could restore them easily. But I never found the option, so I hope your support can help me!

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  staartmees · Member · May 31, 2020 at 8:49 am

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  Deleted sites can only be restored within 30 days after deletion. After 30 days everythinh is purged from the wordpress.com servers and the domain name is blocked.

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  skinfragile · Member · May 31, 2020 at 9:25 am

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  Oh shoot!
  But if the domain-name is blocked, then I should be able to un-block it? No?
  Would make sense to me…
  I hope there’s an option like that…

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  fstat · Staff · May 31, 2020 at 1:37 pm

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  Hi there,

  Both those addresses have been deleted way more than a month ago and therefore we cannot restore them.

  It’s clearly stated in our documentation as well as during the deletion process.

  Deleting a site permanently removes it and you’ll never be able to re-use its WordPress.com address

  https://wordpress.com/support/delete-site/#reverse-a-site-deletion