recover old website url

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  monicaycli · Member · Apr 5, 2017 at 5:01 pm

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  Hello, I used to have a website with the url ‘monicaycli.wordpress.com’ and I deleted it a while ago. I’m wondering if there’s anyway to make this url available to me again? I tried to create another site with this url but it wasn’t available. I do not need to recover any content of the site – I only would like to have the url back. Does anyone know whether this is it possible? Thank you!

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  themagicrobot · Member · Apr 5, 2017 at 5:11 pm

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  “monicaycli.wordpress.com is no longer available.
  The authors have deleted this site”.

  If you’ve already tried and failed then the answer is no. However a lot depends on how long ago was “a while ago”. WordPress.com’s policy used to be that deleting an address meant that address was lost forever. Support docs now say that there is a possibility of reusing WordPress.com URLs after a two year period has elapsed.

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

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  monicaycli · Member · Apr 5, 2017 at 5:16 pm

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  Thanks! I deleted it about a year ago, so I guess I’ll just have to wait to have it back…

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  themagicrobot · Member · Apr 5, 2017 at 5:19 pm

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  I’m sorry it’s not better news. One alternative would be to upgrade to the Personal plan and then you could choose a custom domain address without the WordPress.com suffix.

  https://wordpress.com/pricing/

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  monicaycli · Member · Apr 5, 2017 at 5:21 pm

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  Haha, yeah I thought about that. I’ll think about whether I’d like to make that investment just yet. Thanks!