Deleted site by others for reuse?

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  justoutsidetheboxcartoon · Member · Dec 16, 2014 at 1:10 am

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  Greetings Happiness Engineers!

  I recently set up another blog (https://thebookhowtomakeanalien.wordpress.com) to help promote my new book. Ideally I wanted the site to be https://howtomakeanalien.wordpress.com for the URL, but I couldn’t because I was notified that the site had been deleted by another WordPress user. However, it did offer me the domain https://howtomakeanalien.com.

  I have two questions.
  1. Is it possible to get the https://howtomakeanalien.wordpress.com site? If not,
  2. Can I get the paid for https://howtomakeanalien.com domain? What happens after a year and I get asked if I wish to continue with payment and I choose not to – does this mean my site gets deleted or will it revert to https://howtomakeanalien.wordpress.com?

  Many thanks

  Marti

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  rachelmcr · Member · Dec 16, 2014 at 10:56 am

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  Hi Marti,

  Once a site is deleted, that site’s address can’t be reused by anyone. That means it isn’t possible to get the https://howtomakeanalien.wordpress.com address for your site.

  That said, you’re welcome to register the domain howtomakeanalien.com for your site. :) You can do that from your Domains page.

  If you decide after a year that you don’t want to continue using that custom domain, you can go back to using your free address thebookhowtomakeanalien.wordpress.com.

  Please let me know if I can do anything more to help with that. :)