recovering a deleted site

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  shanehanly · Member · Aug 15, 2015 at 8:14 pm

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  i accidentally deleted my blog, but need to have it recovered. How do I do that? It is not showing up in the available sites.

  thewppodcast.wordpress.com

  I also would be able to start over if the site was fully gone, but it says it is still unavailable.

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

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  micawbr · Member · Aug 16, 2015 at 8:42 pm

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  Hello,
  Unfortunately, that blog can’t be reused, even though you were the one who originally created and deleted it. It’s the policy of WordPress.com not to allow blog names to be reused: https://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

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  shanehanly · Member · Aug 16, 2015 at 9:06 pm

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  Thanks for the answer. It’s unfortunate that’s the policy. I really liked that name, and made a mistake on it.

  Oh well. Thanks again for getting back to me on that.

  I wonder if they will ever go and do a master reset for all the names that where deleted in a massive group batch and make them available again?

  Would be nice.

  ~Shane

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  timethief · Member · Aug 16, 2015 at 9:16 pm

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  That’s not likely to happen any time soon so please so not hold your breath. However, you can register another .wordpress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/register-a-blog/ with a similar URL.

  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/