Re-using wordpress domain name

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  cbvanrees · Member · Mar 20, 2017 at 1:37 am

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  Hello,
  I deleted a wordpress site thinking it would free up the domain name for another site, and of course learned the hard way that this is not the case. Is there no way to ever use that domain name again?
  Thanks!

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

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  reallycoldmilk · Member · Mar 20, 2017 at 2:45 am

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  Hi. WordPress does not recycle deleted URL’s, once they’re gone, they’re gone.

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  cbvanrees · Member · Mar 21, 2017 at 5:02 pm

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  Thanks for the quick response! I figured this was the case. How odd.

  Is there any way to get the old address to redirect somewhere?
  Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Mar 21, 2017 at 5:04 pm

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  The answer is no. You cannot redirect from any URL that no longer exists.

  Deleted blog URLs are not recycled, regardless of who registered and deleted them and no exceptions are made except for the one stated at http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/.

  You can register another .wordpress.com URL and then purchase an upgrade plan so you can map to an existing domain.

  Register another .wordpress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/register-a-blog/

  Purchase a domain mapping upgrade knowing it does not matter what the underlying .wordpress.com address is when you are domain mapping.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/

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  cbvanrees · Member · Mar 21, 2017 at 5:07 pm

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  Bummer. Thanks so much for the informative reply!

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  timethief · Member · Mar 21, 2017 at 5:07 pm

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  You may be able to locate your content in Google’s cache and copy and paste into new posts and pages. You may be able to locate it in the Internet Archives Wayback Machine. https://archive.org/web/