The name I chose for my blog is already taken – but not used.

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  flecken · Member · Jul 30, 2013 at 12:28 pm

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  Hi everyone!
  I registered on wordpress.com as flecken, as I wanted to name my blog flecken. Now I had to find out that someone already took that name in 2006, but hasn’t used it ever since. Is there any way I can “get” that name? flecken is my username on many websites, IG, my tumblr and everything, and I would really like to keep it like that.. Do you have any ideas?
  Alle the best, Lisa

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  thelessermanblog · Member · Jul 30, 2013 at 4:02 pm

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  I’m having the same problem. It says “the authors have deleted this site,” but does that mean that specific username is lost for all time to everyone?

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  auxclass · Member · Jul 30, 2013 at 4:06 pm

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  Gone is gone forever – the links in the other thread cover no recycling of blog names – once a site is deleted it is gone forever

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  thelessermanblog · Member · Jul 30, 2013 at 4:08 pm

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  Which thread are you referring to? Can you link it?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 30, 2013 at 4:08 pm

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  Hi there,
  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. Lastly, a verification link is sent in an email and must be clicked to delete a blog. Click that link and you have been repeatedly warned that deletion is irreversible and the URL cannot be recycled and used by anyone again. http://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/

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  timethief · Member · Jul 30, 2013 at 4:09 pm

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  someone already took that name in 2006, but hasn’t used it ever since.

  There is no expiration date on blogs unused or otherwise. If you can make contact on your own with the owner of an unused blog then there is a means of a consenting blog owner to transfer the blog to another username account. http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account

  In the case that there is no contact information Staff will not breach the privacy policy and provide you with an email address.

  if you are not successful, 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/