Deleted Websites

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  islamshahjada4 · Member · Mar 19, 2016 at 10:13 pm

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  Hi,

  Suppose I want to create a website using the domain “example.wordpress.com”. However, WordPress says that domain is already being used, but when I visit the domain, it says “this site has been deleted by its author”. If that site has already been deleted, how come I am not able to use that domain name for my new website?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 19, 2016 at 10:14 pm

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  Deleted 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/

  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/