I would like to use an unused domain.

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  immichaelsmith · Member · Mar 6, 2015 at 9:12 pm

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  A blog has been deleted and I would like the url, what do I do, can I contact the owners?

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

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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2015 at 9:15 pm

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  No cannot register any deleted blog URL. Deleting any .wordpress.com blog URL is not easily done and what you ask to do is not possible. One has to ignore at least three warnings stating that deletion is permanent and irreversible and then click a verification link in an email to delete a blog. That’s because 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 · Mar 6, 2015 at 9:16 pm

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  Edit: adding missing word
  No you cannot

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  immichaelsmith · Member · Mar 7, 2015 at 9:10 pm

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  Another blog, http://www.babble.wordpress.com has been deleted, but they still have the url. I would like to use the url, but it still registered with that user.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 8, 2015 at 10:55 pm

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  Let’s run this again.

  No one can register any deleted blog URL here ever at all. Deleting any .wordpress.com blog URL is not easily done and what you ask to do is not possible. One has to ignore at least three warnings stating that deletion is permanent and irreversible and then click a verification link in an email to delete a blog. That’s because 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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  ifmomsaysok · Member · Mar 8, 2015 at 11:54 pm

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  @timethief… according to his bio, OP is only 12. He may not understand the WordPress TOS, or any of the support docs you’ve recommended.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 8, 2015 at 11:56 pm

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  If he’s twelve years of age then he he is NOT legally allowed to register an account here at all. One has to be 13 to register an account and blogs here.

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  ifmomsaysok · Member · Mar 8, 2015 at 11:57 pm

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  I’m aware of that, perhaps he isn’t.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 9, 2015 at 12:00 am

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  Not to worry as Staff will make him aware of it now that I tagged this thread for them