Can't start my blog

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  everydaythatthesunrises · Member · May 12, 2012 at 11:20 pm

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  I’m having a problem getting started. I have an old wordpress blog which I deleted and changed the name to everydaythesunrises.wordpress.com, but for some reason this change does not appear to have gone through, because my profile says that I don’t have any blogs started yet. I also can’t create a new blog with the name everydaythesunrises.wordpress.com because it says that the name has already been taken (I assume by me!). I’m so confused… someone help?
  Thanks :)

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  supportbot · Member · May 12, 2012 at 11:21 pm

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  timethief · Member · May 12, 2012 at 11:33 pm

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  I have an old wordpress blog which I deleted

  Once a blog is deleted the URL is gone forever and cannot be recycled and reused by the person who deleted it or anyone else.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/delete-blog/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

  everydaythesunrises.wordpress.com is no longer available.
  The authors have deleted this blog.

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  raincoaster · Member · May 12, 2012 at 11:46 pm

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  It says you haven’t got any blogs because you deleted the one you had. You can’t re-use the name. Pick a new name.

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  everydaythatthesunrises · Member · May 13, 2012 at 8:47 am

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  So what happened is I changed my username to everydaythesunrises, and then chose the option “change example.wordpress.com to match my new username and discard the old address”

  I was under the impression that this would give me a new blog address everydaythesunrises.wordpress.com and discard my old one, but I guess I must have inadvertently created and deleted everydaythesunrses.wordpress.com at the same time.

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  raincoaster · Member · May 13, 2012 at 9:05 am

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  Deletion is permanent and the instructions are not as clear as they should be for deletion, name changing, blog name changing, etc. That’s why I never recommend deletion; I prefer to tell people to set the blog as Private and start a new one. It’s just safer.

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  everydaythatthesunrises · Member · May 13, 2012 at 9:11 am

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  great thanks for the help!