Deleted Blog Address – Want to Start New Blog with Same Address

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  smcag · Member · Jul 26, 2012 at 2:42 pm

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  Hi,

  I recently (yesterday) created and then deleted a blog at the address ReviewableMatters.wordpress.com.

  I would like to start a new blog with the same blog address but wordpress is telling me that the address is already in use. However, when I try and access the ReviewableMatters.worpress.com blog, I am told that the blog is deleted.

  Is there a time period that I must wait before the blog address is available again?

  Please let me know.

  Thanks in advance.

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  thegiddygoat · Member · Jul 26, 2012 at 2:53 pm

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  Blog URL’s are never re-used, not even by the original owner. You had to agree to three different warnings about this before actually deleting the blog. Why would you set up a blog and delete it in one day, and then want it back the following day? Was there a plan? You can of course use domain mapping if you want that URL name, but you won’t get the free URL name back on WordPress, not even if you wait.

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  smcag · Member · Jul 26, 2012 at 2:59 pm

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  Wow – that strikes me as a bit strange.

  So, theoretically, I could spend my time opening and deleting as many account names as possible thereby preventing anyone and everyone from ever using the names?

  While I admit it is a bit far flung, it is a bit strange no?

  Thanks for your help.

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  thegiddygoat · Member · Jul 26, 2012 at 3:06 pm

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  But would you really want to do that? And this is for everyone’s protection. What if someone else re-used your deleted URL name, and used it in a ‘bad’ way, and everyone thought it was you?

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  smcag · Member · Jul 26, 2012 at 3:15 pm

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  I of course see your point – however, I guess I feel that it would be a bit juvenile to put any kind of personal information (identification) in a blog address.

  By the same token, there is nothing preventing anyone from starting a blog address with someone else’s name and using it in a “bad” way.

  Just seems like overkill to me – that said, I realize my opinion does not count for much.

  Thanks,

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  timethief · Member · Jul 26, 2012 at 3:18 pm

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  Too bad you deleted the blog. I always suggest bloggers make the blog “private” because they may want to use it again one day in the future and deleted blog URLs here are not recycled.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/delete-blog/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

  You can register another blog with a similar name. http://en.support.wordpress.com/register-a-blog/

  Or you can register a domain vis a domain mapping upgrade and it will not matter what the underlying .wordpress.com address is.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/

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  smcag · Member · Jul 26, 2012 at 3:20 pm

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  Understood. Thanks for your help everyone.

  Have a good one.

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  silvermus · Member · Jul 26, 2012 at 3:23 pm

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  Actually @smcag i am an artist and have used my real name in blog URL’s so i don’t consider it juvenile at all. Many artists, poets etc need to use their real name. I consider WordPress gold for not allowing the re-use of URL’s, and i hope they never change.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 26, 2012 at 3:26 pm

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  @jansmix
  I’m with you and I like the WordPress.com policy too.

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  the22magazine · Member · Jul 27, 2012 at 7:42 pm

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  I accidentally made a new blog in an account I did not want to be logged into. I would now like to separate this blog from the others, so when the blogger logs in they don’t have access to the other accounts. Is there a way to do this without creating a whole new blog?
  Thanks!