I tried to claim a wordpress.com name and it auto-logged me into my old account.

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  courageindarkness · Member · Mar 17, 2017 at 1:06 am

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  This name is for a business. I had no idea it would auto log me in and now it is registered to this account. I have ‘deleted’ it and now it shows it as unavailable, but I can’t re-claim it for the right account. it doesn’t show up in the list of options any more. Do I have to wait for it to become available again?

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

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  timethief · Member · Mar 17, 2017 at 2:26 am

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  I do not know which username account and which URL your are referring to. That said, I do know that deleted WordPress.COM blog URLs are not recycled, regardless of who registered and deleted them and no exceptions are made except for the one stated at http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/.

  You can register another .wordpress.com URL and then purchase an upgrade plan so you can map to an existing domain.

  Register another .wordpress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/register-a-blog/

  Purchase a domain mapping upgrade knowing 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/