Rename site to old site name

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  wweber4 · Member · Jul 20, 2016 at 5:03 pm

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  Hello,

  I deleted a site which we wanted to scrap but I now want to rename another site to that name, is this possible? For example, say the old site was foofoofoo.wordpress.com and the current site is barbarbar.wordpress.com – when I try to change barbarbar to foofoofoo it now says that name is taken. Is there no way to reuse an old domain name of a deleted site?

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  fstat · Staff · Jul 20, 2016 at 8:59 pm

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  If you delete a site you will not be able to get it back and no one else will be able to use that site address. You can read more about re-using a WordPress.com address here:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

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  wweber4 · Member · Jul 21, 2016 at 2:18 pm

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  Hmm makes sense, thanks fstat. Shouldn’t be so hasty to delete old sites.

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  fstat · Staff · Jul 21, 2016 at 8:50 pm

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  You’re welcome. Next time you can empty the site and make private in order to keep the domain.