Transferring domain but page not available

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  danwilson42 · Member · Oct 3, 2014 at 1:05 am

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  I wanted to start a blog but the domain was taken. I contacted the blog owner because it was inactive, they agreed to let me have the blog and now the blog page shows it is no longer available. Is there any way to complete the transfer so I can write the blog?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 3, 2014 at 9:18 pm

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  No. The deleted blog URL will not become available again. I’m sorry but 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/

  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/