changing domain to name of blog that was transferred to me
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To whom it may concern,
Hello there! I have been with wordpress for a while now, and I currently have a blog called liberallyarts.wordpress.com. I had wanted to change it to other domain such as xyz.wordpress.com This domain was owned by another party, so they transferred blog ownership to me, and I deleted the blog (by doing this, doesn’t this now make this domain available?). However, when I tried to change the name of my blog to turnandtalk, I am not allowed to and the message ‘blog name is reserved’ is taken.
Would love some help on this problem.
Sincerely,
DebThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I deleted the blog (by doing this, doesn’t this now make this domain available?
Absolutely not.
You ought to have cleared the site content https://en.support.wordpress.com/empty-site/ out of the transferred site and then exported your content out of the first site https://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ and imported it into the site https://en.support.wordpress.com/import/ that was transferred to you. But it’s too late for that now. You ignored the deleting a site warnings.
Deleted wordpress.COM blog URLs are not recycled, regardless of who registered and deleted them and the only exceptions are made are for URLs that were deleted 2 or more years ago. http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/
You can register another .wordpress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/register-a-blog/
Then if you wish to you 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/
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Thank you for responding and all of the helpful info! I appreciate it. It was honestly pretty confusing, and I read through the warnings but keep getting linked to different things. Do you know if/how I can e-mail wordpress directly and not through the forums?
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