says blog url is taken but url is blank

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  brynnrainbow · Member · Sep 22, 2014 at 1:30 am

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  I was trying to create a new wordpress site but it said the url i wanted was taken, when I tried to go to that url it said there was no blog with that url, how do i get it?

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  senff · Staff · Sep 22, 2014 at 1:33 am

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  It’s possible (likely) that someone registered with a certain username, but hasn’t created a blog with that name yet.

  For example, if someone registers username “awesomeperson”, then that makes “awesomeperson.wordpress.com” only available to that person, and no one else can use it. However, that awesome person is not required to create a site at that address immediately — until then, the site will not be showing anything, but the address will still be unavailable.

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  brynnsadventures · Member · Sep 22, 2014 at 1:40 am

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  I own the account that the url is taken
  I have the account brynnrainbow and then this one brynnsadventures and it still says brynnsadventures.wordpress.com is taken

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  senff · Staff · Sep 22, 2014 at 1:56 am

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  When you registered the account “brynnsadventures”, did you create a site with that account right away?

  Another possibility is that someone else created the site brynnsadventures.wordpress.com at an earlier point in time, and deleted it again later. That will make the site unavailable forever, to everyone.

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 22, 2014 at 2:03 am

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  brynnsadventures.wordpress.com is no longer available.

  The authors have deleted this site.

  Gone is gone forever – blog names are not recycled at WordPress.COM

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  timethief · Member · Sep 22, 2014 at 2:05 am

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  You cannot recover or register any deleted blog URL. Deleted blog URLs are not recycled, regardless of who registered and deleted them and no exceptions are made.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

  To prevent accidental or inadvertent deletion of blogs, there are multiple warnings given that blog deletion is permanent and irreversible. Lastly, a verification link is sent in an email and it must be clicked to delete a blog. If clicking that link does not work then copy and paste it into your upper browser window and click. Once the verification link for deletion is clicked the blog URL is forever gone, gone, gone.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/

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

  Then if you wish to you can register a domain via a domain mapping upgrade because it does not matter what the underlying .wordpress.com address is when you are domain mapping.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/