I started over on my site, and now I cant get my domain name back.

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  katarinadick · Member · May 18, 2017 at 5:23 pm

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  I had registered katarinamayuko.wordpress.com, I deleted and started over. Now it says if I go to the site the owner deleted it, which was me. So now I am using katarinamayukoblog.wordpress.com, but I really would like to get katarinamayuko back. Is that possible?

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  krutidugade · Member · May 18, 2017 at 5:27 pm

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  Hi there,

  Sadly, there is no way you can recover the domain name. WordPress staff doesn’t recover site if it’s deleted by authorized user.
  Also, completely deleted sites can’t be recovered.

  Next time you wish to start over, empty your site instead of deleting it. And yes do read warnings carefully.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/empty-site/

  Hope this helps!

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  katarinadick · Member · May 18, 2017 at 5:52 pm

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  Thank you! So that means that if someone deletes a URL then it goes dark completely? I would think it would be useable by a different person at that point.

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  krutidugade · Member · May 19, 2017 at 2:06 am

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  @katarinadick
  The URL is made available after a specific interval. I am not very sure of how long the domain name will be unavailable. But it isn’t available immediately to anyone.