domain name taken, but site is cancelled, how to get that domain name

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  hpholsson · Member · Mar 10, 2015 at 2:34 am

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  I have a specific domain name/blog name I want to use that has already been taken. However, going to that site, it says that it has been cancelled. So the domain name should be available for me to use :-).

  How do I go about to get that domain name. I was thinking about contacting wordpress.com support to free it up. But I can’t find contact details (contact form, email etc)

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  kokkieh · Staff · Mar 10, 2015 at 10:41 am

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  Hi there. Deleted URLs are gone forever. If someone else deleted that address there is no way for you to register it. See http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

  You’ll need to pick another URL for our blog.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Mar 10, 2015 at 10:42 am

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  *your* blog

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  hpholsson · Member · Mar 12, 2015 at 2:14 am

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  Thank you for a timely response :). Thats unfortunate. Seems a bit ineffective in the longrun though, since the possible good URLs are finite.