domain name taken

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  beiconicentertainment · Member · Jun 12, 2015 at 6:47 pm

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  I orinially registersed a blog using a domain name…I later decided I wanted to purvhase the upgrade for a .org name…but didn’t know how to do that so I requested a deletion for that site…now when I try to re register using that name it says it is already taken…but was taken by ME..i though I deleted it..didn’t know it would be a problem getiing it back..please help

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  timethief · Member · Jun 12, 2015 at 6:50 pm

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  Site deletion is a permanent and irreversible act. There are at least 3 warnings including an email verification link sent that must be clicked to delete a blog URL. https://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/

  I am sorry but you cannot register a deleted blog URL. No one can use a deleted blog URL regardless of who registered it. Deleted blog URLs are not recycled here and you can confirm by reading:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/delete-blog/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

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

  Or you can register a domain via 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/