Repurchase cancelled domain

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  hublumina · Member · Sep 3, 2015 at 4:12 am

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  I purchased a domain name registration and mapping for ccieforthewin.com, then cancelled it once I figured out that wordpress.com won’t allow me to use plugins and other customizations I want without paying extra. I intended to pick up the domain using a web host and quickly found that wordpress.com’s registrar doesn’t release the domains after cancellation. While I find this practice to be incredibly shady and disappointing, I have no option but to try and re-purchase the domain with you guys and then just point the name servers at my host. I’d like to buy the registration only, and not the mapping. Please let me know if I can still re-purchase this domain for the registration cost of $5. Thank you.

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  hublumina · Member · Sep 3, 2015 at 4:13 am

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  i mean hub-lumina.com

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 3, 2015 at 4:24 am

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  any registrar is under no obligation to release a domain name, also no registrar releases domain names that are canceled in a few minutes, normally it takes a week or two. Sometimes domains are auctioned off or they can be bought by someone else or a squatter can buy a name and hold it for ransom

  Sometimes the staff can retrieve a canceled domain name sometimes not.

  I will flag this for staff attention

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  rachelmcr · Member · Sep 3, 2015 at 11:30 am

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  Hi there,

  As auxclass mentioned, it can take time (about 1-2 weeks) for a domain registrar to fully cancel and release a newly registered domain. If you want, you can wait for the domain to be fully cancelled so you can try to register it at a different registrar.

  If you’d like to recover the domain hub-lumina.com here at WordPress.com, I can help you with that. The domain costs $18 for domain registration, or $26 for domain registration with private registration. (You can read more about those options on our Domains support page.)

  If you want to go ahead and try to recover the domain here at WordPress.com, please let me know and I’ll get started on that for you. If we are able to recover the domain you’ll be able to Move Your Domain to Another Host so you can use it elsewhere.

  Please let me know if you have any questions about that.