How Do I Get the Domain Name of A Deleted Blog to be Mine Now?

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  raenation1023 · Member · Sep 23, 2013 at 2:56 pm

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  I’m creating a new blog and when I typed in the web address to be followed by .wordpress.com, it says that it has already been taken. However, when I type that into my address bar at the top, a notification page comes up saying that the page has been deleted by the authors. How can I get this name to be mine now?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  quangvanhai1 · Member · Sep 23, 2013 at 3:01 pm

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  I’m creating a new blog and when I typed in the web address to be followed by .wordpress.com, it says that it has already been taken. However, when I type that into my address bar at the top, a notification page comes up saying that the page has been deleted by the authors. How can I get this name to be mine now?

  The blog I need help with is giasu.wordpress.com.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 23, 2013 at 3:08 pm

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  Deleted blog URLs are not recycled, regardless of who registered and deleted them and no exceptions are made.
  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/

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  raenation1023 · Member · Sep 23, 2013 at 8:12 pm

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  Thank you, timethief. I’m a little disappointed but the explanation of why WordPress enforces this rule makes sense!