Reclaim a wordpress.com subdomain

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  jasonhbass · Member · Oct 18, 2016 at 10:42 pm

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  I’d like to reclaim a subdomain of WordPress.com that was used by a previous owner. How long after that site was deleted until the name becomes available again?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 18, 2016 at 10:45 pm

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  Deleted wordpress.COM blog URLs are not recycled, regardless of who registered and deleted them and the only exceptions are made are for URLs that were deleted 2 or more years ago. http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

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

  Then if you wish to you can register a domain via a domain mapping upgrade because 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/