I deleted my blog but want to restart it

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  rachelinwales · Member · Oct 13, 2013 at 5:15 pm

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  I tried to transfer over from blogger but when I did it looked terrible so I decided to wait until I had time to transfer everything properly.

  When i tried to do it again I couldn’t get the address back, but I don’t care to have a wordpress account that is different than my blogger account (I’m trying to move to wordpress) Since I was the one who originally registered the wordpress blog can I not just start it again? I wasn’t sure how to delete all the content and I didn’t want to have my blog on two sigtes at the same time so I guess I ruined my .wordpress.com blog forever?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 13, 2013 at 5:25 pm

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  To prevent accidental or inadvertent deletion of blogs, there are multiple warnings given that blog deletion is permanent and irreversible. Lastly, a verification link is sent in an email and must be clicked to delete a blog. If clicking that link does not work then copy and paste it into your upper browser window and click.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/

  You cannot recover or register any deleted blog URL. 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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  timethief · Member · Oct 13, 2013 at 5:27 pm

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  I tried to transfer over from blogger but when I did it looked terrible so I decided to wait until I had time to transfer everything properly. … I wasn’t sure how to delete all the content and I didn’t want to have my blog on two sigtes at the same time

  All you had to do was post a thread here and you would have had support from us Volunteers and if required from Staff.

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  rachelinwales · Member · Oct 13, 2013 at 5:30 pm

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  Yup, that’s what I thought.

  It was late and i didn’t want to have 2 blogs up, I figured i would restart later. I’m sure wordpress is great (looks really good) but I can’t really change the address now.

  Oh well, most things on the internet seem to stay there forever, i’ve hit on the one thing that is gone forever!

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  timethief · Member · Oct 13, 2013 at 5:34 pm

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  You can always make blog visibility private when going through the export import process. > Settings > Reading

  A sub-domain URL can be replaced by purchasing 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/ If you own a domain name then you can map an existing domain http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/