Permanently Deleting WordPress Site and Domain

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    brokegalsofmisery · Member ·

    I am beyond frustrated with WordPress. I registered my own domain, decided I did not want to use WordPress any longer, so i made my page private. However, when I go to Google and search “broke gals of misery” the first thing to show up is my WP site.
    I want to completely delete my account, domain, and site that I have with WP. I do not want to transfer my domain or any of the other options they suggest.
    How do I completely delete my site from showing up in google search results as well as delete my account? Please help!

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

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    timethief · Member ·

    Point your frustration at the search engines because you have the wrong target here. Deleting blogs, their content, or making a blog private does not remove it from the SERPs (search engine page results). Google and Bing only clear their caches of deleted indexed content that produces a 404 (page not found) every 3 – 6 months. To completely remove an entire page from Google search results: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663419?hl=en

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    timethief · Member ·

    To delete a free hosted WordPress.COM blog you must be logged in under the exact same username account that registered a blog to delete the blog. To prevent accidental or inadvertent deletion of blogs, there are multiple warnings given that blog deletion is permanent and irreversible. Lastly, a verification link is sent in an email and must be clicked to delete a blog. If clicking that link does not work then copy and paste it into your upper browser window and click.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/
    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/

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    timethief · Member ·

    and Domain

    What domain? I don’t see a URL for to any custom domain above and I don’t find a reference to one under this username account.

    WordPress.com is the top level domain hare and all blogs hosted here are on .wordpress.com sub-domains like this one http://brokegalsofmisery.wordpress.com/

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