Is it possible to take over a deleted wordpress domain?

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  mevarit · Member · Nov 4, 2013 at 8:16 pm

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  Greetings!

  I was looking for a domain name for my blog and I would like to have “fragmente” because the website that used it has been deleted. Still it does not look like I can take over the name for my blog.
  Any chance of getting the name?

  Thanks,
  Thomas

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 4, 2013 at 8:18 pm

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  Any chance of getting the name?

  No – gone is gone forever

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  mevarit · Member · Nov 4, 2013 at 8:20 pm

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  Uhm, ok. Why is that so?

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  mevarit · Member · Nov 4, 2013 at 8:49 pm

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  Thank you very much for the answer. I will find another domain.

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 4, 2013 at 8:54 pm

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  So you can’t be impersonated – the example given in the support docs is that you have a family blog with kid pictures – you delete the blog – someone else gets the name – starts putting nude pictures on your old domain name – your aunt Ethel visits the site not remembering the old blog is gone and finds the nudes and is offended

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  mevarit · Member · Nov 4, 2013 at 9:01 pm

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  I understand.