Changed account name now can't create new wordpress site by the same name?

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  bigheadm0de · Member · Jun 22, 2015 at 2:14 pm

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  Hi, I decided to start a brand new wordpress.com blog so came to wordpress.com to register (the site name I wanted – bigheadm0de.wordpress.com – was not in use and available). WordPress told me that I held an existing account linked to my email address so I thought instead of creating a new account I’d rename the old defunct one (there was no site attached to it – it was deleted years ago).

  I changed my account name to bigheadm0de and marked the option to change any existing blogs to the new name. I then proceeded to create my site and it tells me that bigheadm0de.wordpress.com now already exists! Upon typing this url into my address bar I get the message that the site has been deleted by the author.

  It seems that wordpress has somehow linked my old deleted blog with the new name and I can’t use it to create the blog I wanted. Is there anything I can do?

  Thanks in advance for any assistance

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  ehtis · Staff · Jun 22, 2015 at 2:19 pm

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  Was the blog bigheadm0de.wordpress.com permanently deleted by you?

  If so, its address/URL cannot be be used again, ever. Even if it was associated with your own account.

  More here:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

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  bigheadm0de · Member · Jun 22, 2015 at 2:29 pm

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  Hi Ehtis,

  Thanks for your reply.

  No it wasn’t deleted – it never existed. It was available to use until I changed my username and now it’s unavailable.

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  bigheadm0de · Member · Jun 23, 2015 at 8:24 am

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