creating a site

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  ravenboyd · Member · Aug 18, 2015 at 4:09 pm

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  I wanted to start over and I deleted my wordpress site and I wanted to recreate it using the same name but it says the name is already taken now even though I just deleted it . Help ?

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  timethief · Member · Aug 18, 2015 at 4:11 pm

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  You cannot register any deleted blog URL. Deleting any .wordpress.com blog URL is not easily done and what you ask to do is not possible. One has to ignore at least three warnings stating that deletion is permanent and irreversible and then click a verification link in an email to delete a blog. That’s because 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/

  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/