changing domain to name of blog that was transferred to me

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  debbieali22 · Member · Jun 5, 2017 at 9:32 pm

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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,
  Deb

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  timethief · Member · Jun 5, 2017 at 9:41 pm

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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/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/

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  debbieali22 · Member · Jun 5, 2017 at 9:50 pm

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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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  timethief · Member · Jun 5, 2017 at 9:54 pm

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  Emailing Staff will not change what I posted above.
  help@wordpress.com