How to regain my WordPress.com URL from a deleted site

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  investmenthomesunlimited · Member · Mar 22, 2016 at 11:20 pm

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  I had created a free WordPress .com site, but I later deleted it thinking I could just reuse the URL name later; however, when I try to enter the URL on the ‘Let’s Find a Domain’ screen, it tells me that the site URL is unavailable and when I go to the domain address I get a message stating that ‘MY_SITE_URL is no longer available. The authors have deleted this site.’

  Since I’m the author, shouldn’t there be a way for me to reuse the URL that I created?

  Any assistance would be appreciated.

  Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Mar 23, 2016 at 2:02 am

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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/