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Renamed account

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    theth3rddrawer · Member · Jul 3, 2012 at 6:11 pm
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    Can anyone tell me how to recover an apparent “taken blog address”? I completely deleted and renamed my account and when i went to add new blog it claims the blog address is taken however on searching there doesn’t seem to be a record of anything under the name – theth3rddrawer.
    Thank you

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    supportbot · Member · Jul 3, 2012 at 6:11 pm
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    You did not specify a blog address or reason for posting when you created this topic.

    This support forum is for blogs hosted at WordPress.com. If your question is about a self-hosted WordPress blog then you’ll find help at the WordPress.org forums.

    If you don’t understand the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, you may find this information helpful.

    If you forgot to include a link to your blog, you can reply and include it below. It’ll help people to answer your question.

    This is an automated message.

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    timethief · Member · Jul 3, 2012 at 6:17 pm
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    There is no recycling of deleted blog URLS here at wordpress.com. That’s why 3 warnings and an email with a verification link are need to delete a blog.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/delete-blog/
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

    You can register another blog with a similar name. http://en.support.wordpress.com/register-a-blog/

    Or you can purchase a domain name via a domain mapping upgrade as in that case it will not matter what the underlying .wordpress.com address is.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/

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    theth3rddrawer · Member · Jul 3, 2012 at 9:42 pm
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    Thank you i just found another thread with the same problem, though might i add I’m pretty sure i never created nor deleted the blog i wish…..?
    Thanks again.

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    raincoaster · Member · Jul 3, 2012 at 10:02 pm
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    We can’t help you without the exact URL you are talking about. From your first post, it appears you had and then deleted the URL. Please give us the URL of your current blog and the URL you want to change it to.

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