Some trouble with naming?

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  niecenora · Member · Nov 1, 2012 at 4:45 pm

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  The wordpress name that I want for my blog – “withnails” is already taken, but the blog has been deleted – is there a way to get that I can activate the name I want since another user deleted that blog?
  Also, currently, I have “dot com” written out after the name of my blog – “withnailsdotcom.wordpress”, and am wondering why that is? Will it publish that way?
  Blog url: http://withnailsdotcom.wordpress.com/

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  timethief · Member · Nov 1, 2012 at 11:40 pm

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  but the blog has been deleted – is there a way to get that I can activate the name I want since another user deleted that blog?

  Deleted blog URLs are not recycled.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/
  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 register a domain via a domain mapping upgrade and 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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  niecenora · Member · Nov 2, 2012 at 1:45 am

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  Why can’t blog names be recycled?
  Seems like there could be a really easy way – like w domain names – to do that. What’s the reason?
  It’s very annoying to not be able to.

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 2, 2012 at 1:48 am

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  Only staff can answer that. Easier to register whatever.com or .net or .org and move on.