Deleted site but can't use old domain name

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  peachsole · Member · Aug 2, 2017 at 9:20 pm

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  I tried to start a free website on wordpress, but for whatever reason the pages were irreversibly messed up from when I started (likely due to my complete novice). I decided to just delete the site and start over since the pages were normal when I started. However, I can’t use the name I had for the site that I deleted. Instead, it keeps adding ‘blog’ to the end of my site name. Shouldn’t my old site name be available since I deleted the site? I would like to be able to use the original name.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 2, 2017 at 9:21 pm

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  Deleting a URL is intended to be a permanent act and that is why warnings are given that one has to ignore to delete a site.

  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/

  Adding a New Site or Blog to an Existing Account https://en.support.wordpress.com/create-a-blog/#adding-a-new-site-or-blog-to-an-existing-account

  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/