Claiming someone else's deleted domain

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  isahutch · Member · Oct 3, 2014 at 5:00 pm

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  Hi there, I currently have the domain s0mnil0quy.wordpress.com as somniloquy.wordpress.com was taken and deleted by its owner. I’ve heard it is possible to take over deleted domains, is this true? If so, how do I go about this?

  Thank you,

  Isabel

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  timethief · Member · Oct 3, 2014 at 5:16 pm

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  I’ve heard it is possible to take over deleted domains, is this true?

  No that’s absolutely untrue and has never bee true here at WordPress.COM. Recovering or registering any deleted blog URL is not possible. Deleted blog URLs are not recycled, regardless of who registered and deleted them and no exceptions are made.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

  This blog has not been deleted http://s0mnil0quy.wordpress.com/

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  timethief · Member · Oct 3, 2014 at 5:17 pm

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  somniloquy.wordpress.com is no longer available.
  The authors have deleted this site.

  This applies http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 3, 2014 at 5:44 pm

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  You have put zeros in place of “o”‘s in the URL – to me that is confusing – what about playing around with the original URL “somniloquy” – maybe “thesomniloquy.wordpress.com” – that is much easier for me to remember and rolls off the keyboard easier for me

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