Can't register blog name despite it not being used

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  handwrittenhysteria · Member · Mar 20, 2013 at 8:10 am

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  Hi, please ignore my blog URL as this is for a different matter. I had a wordpress.org site which I privately hosted but want to move it onto a wordpress.com account for ease of use. The sites address was http://www.swipestuff.com so I want to keep the swipestuff name, however when I type swipestuff in on the wordpress blog address register it says the site already exists. But when I type the swipestuff.wordpress.com url in it says: “swipestuff.wordpress.com is no longer available. The authors have deleted this site.”

  Can you help me out and let me register that blog name if it is no longer being used by anyone? I no longer have the swipestuff.com domain registered to me so it’s quite important. Thanks

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 20, 2013 at 8:47 am

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  Since you are going to use the custom domain, the underlying wp.com domain doesn’t matter at all. Create a new Wp.com blog of any name you like, then use Domain Mapping to attach your unique domain name to it.

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  handwrittenhysteria · Member · Mar 20, 2013 at 9:21 am

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  I no longer have the swipestuff.com domain registered, hence I want swipestuff.wordpress.com as the next best thing

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 20, 2013 at 9:27 am

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  Well, as you’ve discovered, you can’t.

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  tandava108 · Member · Mar 20, 2013 at 9:52 am

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  Currently swipestuff.net, swipestuff.org, and many others are available. The .com becomes available tomorrow

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  sallynesss · Member · Mar 20, 2013 at 10:22 am

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  According to this, even if a blog gets deleted and doesn’t exist any more, you can’t “recycle” the url