Re-obtaining a deleted blog.

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  neonetha · Member · Jun 9, 2012 at 4:43 pm

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  I recently tried ti change my blog address so i cld use it for my other blog, but now, despite the fact that the blog no longre exists and has been deleted, I am not able to re-obtain that address for one of my other blogs.
  Blog url: http://theneonitects.wordpress.com/

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

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  timethief · Member · Jun 9, 2012 at 4:46 pm

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  When we try to delete a blog there are 3 warnings given that doing so is forver. There is an email with a verification link sent to us to complete the final step.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/delete-blog/
  Once a blog has been deleted the deleted blog address ie. URL cannot be reused or recycled by anyone. http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

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  timethief · Member · Jun 9, 2012 at 4:49 pm

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  What you can do is purchase a domain name of your own via a domain mapping upgrade and then what the underlying .wordpress.com subdomain URL is will not matter.