Not able to change blog address URL

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  maxxbachman · Member · Nov 7, 2011 at 4:40 pm

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  staff-blorbo:

  Hi. I created a blog fourtonfish.wordpress.com in the past and deleted it. Now I would like to reuse fourtonfish as a username. I was hoping this would be possible once the Change Username tool would be available again, however even with the option “No matching blog address” enabled, I still can’t change my username to fourtonfish.

  Will this ever be possible?

  Thanks in advance.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 7, 2011 at 4:49 pm

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  @maxxbachman

  I created a blog fourtonfish.wordpress.com in the past and deleted it. Now I would like to reuse fourtonfish as a username.

  I searched for you and this is what maxmanx has said in another thread:

  Blog names are the same as usernames for the most part. Usernames can be turned into blog names, but blog names cannot be turned into usernames. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cant-change-username-because-i-use-same-display-name?replies=5#post-694997