Releasing or transferring domain name

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    polyhydra · Member ·

    I created a second user on WordPress so that I would be able to keep the work blog separate from my personal blogs.
    Unfortunately I then realized that being registered to different accounts meant that I couldn’t get the work account to automatically post to the facebook business page that I already set up.
    Now I have set the work account as admin for the blog that I am hosting on this user so that my personal gravatar is not used for the work posts.
    However, the name I originally wanted is still reserved by the second account, even though I completely deleted the domain and blog in the second account.
    Would it be possible to free up that domain name and move the blog that I have so far set up over to the domain name I originally wanted?
    Unfortunately I already deleted the blog with the work account, so I can’t simply transfer the blog – which would have probably been the easiest and best option had I known about it before I deleted it.

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

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Can you please be more specific, i.e. provide the actual addresses and usernames you’re speaking of? It’s impossible to give you an accurate answer without that information.

    However, the name I originally wanted is still reserved by the second account, even though I completely deleted the domain and blog in the second account.

    If you’ve deleted a free WordPress.com address, that address is now gone. As the warnings on the delete blog page said, deleted addresses cannot be used again. While a site still exists you can transfer it to another username, but once you delete it there’s nothing we can do.

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    polyhydra · Member ·

    Oh well… I was hoping since it was only online for a day.
    The blog I stupidly deleted is: 20minutenessen.wordpress.com
    I am currently using: 20minutenessenblog.wordpress.com
    Both were set to private as I’m still not ready to publish them to the world yet.
    The other user account is: 20MinutenEssen

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