Previously registered wordpress URL now unavailable?

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  theokindynis · Member · Aug 25, 2012 at 11:29 am

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  Hi there,

  I had previously registered the URL http://theokindynis.wordpress.com and the site is now saying this domain is taken, but it’s not! Is there any way WordPress / I can free this up so I can use this again? Thanks a lot for your help,

  Theo
  Blog url: http://tkindynis.wordpress.com/

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

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  absurdoldbird · Member · Aug 25, 2012 at 3:15 pm

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  If you deleted the blog or if it was deleted by wordpress, then you can’t have that URL again, sorry. Blog names are never recycled and cannot even be used by people who originally created them. Please see this:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

  What I would suggest you do is create a blog with a very similar name and use that instead.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 25, 2012 at 3:19 pm

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  You can register another blog with a similar name. http://en.support.wordpress.com/register-a-blog/

  Or you can register a domain vis a domain mapping upgrade and it will not matter what the underlying .wordpress.com address is.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/