recover deleted wordpress.com site

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  barryngsim · Member · Jan 26, 2016 at 8:36 am

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  i want to retrieve a domain that I deleted by accident, but unable to do so. Please advice.

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  staff-happychia · Staff · Jan 26, 2016 at 9:02 am

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  It is not possible to recover a deleted WordPress.com site. Deleting a site permanently removes it and you’ll never be able to re-use its WordPress.com address. So you will have to use a new address if you wish to create another site.

  Keep this support guide handy for the next time: https://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/

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  lecturerdevelopment · Member · Jan 26, 2016 at 9:04 am

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  I’m aware of that. I’m pretty sure the administrators are able to retrieve this info as well.

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  staff-happychia · Staff · Jan 26, 2016 at 9:13 am

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  Unfortunately not. No one, including WordPress.com staff, can recycle the deleted blog addresses.

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  barryngsim · Member · Jan 26, 2016 at 10:18 am

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  thats a really strange way of doing things.

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  staff-happychia · Staff · Jan 28, 2016 at 8:38 am

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  We generally cannot recycle a blog address largely due to privacy concerns. We currently can recycle specific blog addresses if they meet the appropriate criteria, but in general, most addresses cannot be recycled.

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  lecturerdevelopment · Member · Jan 28, 2016 at 8:43 am

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  I would like to reuse the address as I was a little careless on the deletion. I wasn’t expecting it to be permanently disabled. However, hope there’s some consideration or a place where I can write to request for the revival of the address, as I’ll be using it largely for corporate and educational purposes.

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  staff-happychia · Staff · Jan 28, 2016 at 8:49 am

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  Unfortunately, there is no way to recover a deleted site address.

  You can always create a new site using a variant of the address you have deleted.

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  banhgao · Member · Jan 28, 2016 at 1:36 pm

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  According to this instruction, sites already deleted by their authors two or more years ago may become available again
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/
  So you should try to register it

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  justjennifer · Member · Jan 28, 2016 at 2:03 pm

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  @lecturerdevelopment Regardless, the site at tldsimgeblog.wordpress.com is not deleted, nor does it have any content. Is that the site you need help with?

  @chaitanyamsv- there’s been a relatively recent change in the recycled blog address policy. :) Please have a look at the Support doc that @banhgao linked to.

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  staff-happychia · Staff · Jan 28, 2016 at 4:26 pm

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  @justjennifer

  That’s correct. While my statement that we can’t recover deleted address is technically incorrect, I wouldn’t wait for two+ years to recover a site address. There is also no guarantee that I will be able to get it back as it also has to meet some unspecified criteria.

  Hence, I suggested what I’d do, to other users as well: pick a different address :)

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  barryngsim · Member · Jan 29, 2016 at 12:24 am

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  I was referring more to the tldsimge.wordpress.com :)
  Hoping to get a revival out of it. Way to careless during my busy times. :(

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Jan 29, 2016 at 7:48 pm

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  @barryngsim,

  I e-mailed you in regards to your account. Please let me know if you didn’t receive it.

  Thanks.

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  barryngsim · Member · Jan 30, 2016 at 12:32 am

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  oh didn’t received it :

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Feb 1, 2016 at 4:21 pm

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  Hey,

  I e-mailed you again. Check your spam folder as well. Thanks!