Claiming Former Blog Domain Name

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  jblackberries · Member · Mar 21, 2016 at 9:02 pm

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  Hi, I used to have chubsterfeet.wordpress.com as my domain. I deleted my account and now I’ve returned. I am able to log in as chubsterfeet just fine, but I am not able to claim chubsterfeet.wordpress.com again. It’s making me use chubsterfeetblog.wordpress.com when I try to add a WordPress to my account. Is there any way this can be ‘reset’ so that I can claim my old blog domain? Thanks in advance for any help!

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  timethief · Member · Mar 21, 2016 at 9:04 pm

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  Deleted 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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  jblackberries · Member · Mar 21, 2016 at 9:08 pm

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  I am pretty sure I deleted my blog in 2013. It is 2016 now, so I should be over the two year mark. Would it automatically become available when it has been more than 2 years?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 21, 2016 at 9:11 pm

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  I see 2015 here https://web.archive.org/web/*/chubsterfeet.wordpress.com

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  jblackberries · Member · Mar 21, 2016 at 9:14 pm

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  Excellent. Very helpful. Thank you so much!!