Domain Name unavailable

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  grayladypat · Member · Jun 15, 2021 at 2:05 pm

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  I accidentally deleted the preferred domain for my site, sweetwaterbutterflies.wordpress.com.
  I remade the site under sweetwaterbutterfly.wordpress.com, but I really would like to have the other name. Sadly, it says it’s still unavailable. How long do you hold a name in suspension before it is used again, and is there a way to recover the original preference?

  The site I need help with is [visible only to staff] (email visible only to moderators and staff).

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 15, 2021 at 5:42 pm

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  Deleted site names can never be re-used: https://wordpress.com/support/delete-site/#permanently-deleting-your-site

  Fortunately, https://sweetwaterbutterflies.wordpress.com hadn’t been entirely purged yet, so it has been recovered. :)