rename blog > already existing name > but i deleted it yesterday

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  denartiest · Member · Mar 9, 2012 at 8:44 am

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  hi,

  it was not my intention, but i made with one account two different blogs: “johnnydenartiest.wordpress.com” and “denartiest.wordpress.com” .

  Yesterday i deleted ‘johnnydenartiest’ and wanted to rename ‘denartiest’ to ‘johnnydenartiest’, but then i get the message ‘name already exists’ although i did deleted the blog yesterday.

  Is it posible to solve this problem?
  thank you in advance.
  Blog url: http://denartiest.wordpress.com

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  chrisrudzki · Member · Mar 9, 2012 at 3:54 pm

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  Howdy,

  I’m sorry but blog deletion is permanent. Once you delete a blog, it’s not possible to use that address again.

  Keep in mind that you’re always welcome to map a custom domain (example.com) to your WordPress.com blog.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/

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  denartiest · Member · Mar 9, 2012 at 7:35 pm

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  okay, thank you for the answer, now i know that was really a stupid thing to do :)

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  chrisrudzki · Member · Mar 9, 2012 at 9:34 pm

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  You’re welcome.

  It looks like johnnydenartiest.com is available, so you could always register and map that to a WordPress.com blog. The names don’t need to match so you could map it to denartiest.wordpress.com or any other blog you have access to.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/

  Happy blogging! :-)