Regaining ownership of my recently deleted blog's URL

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  thejournooowl · Member · Apr 17, 2017 at 2:53 pm

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  Recently, I have deleted my blog, thejournowl.wordpress.com, so that I can make a new and improved one, but with the same URL. However, I just found out that doing this makes my old URL unavailable to me. Would it be possible for me to regain ownership of said URL before the month ends (knowing that I was also the previous owner of the URL)?

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  otpidusprime · Member · Apr 17, 2017 at 3:31 pm

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  Hello @thejournooowl,
  Once a site is deleted, it’s address is reserved and cannot be resisted by anyone again(not even by the owner). This is done to keep your blog from being impersonated by someone else.

  So i am sorry, but regain ownership the deleted site’s URL.

  Read more about it here:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

  Remember, If you want to keep your start over by deleting everything but keeping your blog address, you should empty your site, instead of deleting it.

  Read more about emptying site here:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/empty-site/

  Thanks! :)

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  otpidusprime · Member · Apr 17, 2017 at 3:32 pm

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  CORRECTION:
  cannot be registered*

  So i am sorry, but you cannot* regain ownership to the deleted site’s URL.

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  otpidusprime · Member · Apr 17, 2017 at 3:33 pm

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  CORRECTION:
  Remember, If you want to start over by deleting everything but keeping your blog address, you should empty your site, instead of deleting it.*

  Sorry for so many typos!