username taken, but not really?

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  wacohope · Member · Jul 17, 2012 at 8:59 pm

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  I had two wordpress accounts (by accident), and my blog URL had my maiden name in it. I am married now so I wanted to change my username and also the blog URL to reflect that. *I hadn’t realized yet that I could just transfer my blog from hopebalfa to hopemustakim and then change the URL. SO, what I DID was change hopemustakim to mrshopem thinking that THEN it would be available I could change hopebalfa to hopemustakim. well basically, I did figure out that I could transfer it, but I’m stuck with username mrshopem because it now says hopemustakim username is taken and the URL is yhus reserved.
  Is there any way that someone on staff could free that up so I can have it back?
  Blog url: http://hopebalfa.wordpress.com/

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Jul 17, 2012 at 9:24 pm

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  Deleted blogs cannot be restored or reused. Deleting a blog is permanent and the name cannot be used again. There are several warnings about this on the Tools -> Delete Site page and in the help pages, and you are required to confirm the deletion by email.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/delete-blog/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

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  wacohope · Member · Jul 17, 2012 at 9:50 pm

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  Ithanls for your reply! I actually didn’t delete the blog- I changed usernames (several times).

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  timethief · Member · Jul 17, 2012 at 10:00 pm

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  I’ll flag this thread for Staff attention.

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  wacohope · Member · Jul 17, 2012 at 10:02 pm

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  Thank you! I just think the username hopemustakim is stuck somewhere in limbo :) hopefully we can get it back to being “available.” then I’ll change mrshopem to hopemustakim and delete my old one- hopebalfa.
  Thank you for helping!

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  bryanvillarin · Staff · Jul 18, 2012 at 3:12 pm

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  Hi mrshopem,

  Like timethief said, I’m afraid we cannot restore a username once it’s deleted. However, you can change the name displayed in your public profile in the Settings tab on the WordPress.com home page.

  Let me know if you have any other questions.

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  hopemustakim1 · Member · Jul 19, 2012 at 1:46 pm

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  What I was really more concerned about is getting that URL- HopeMustakim.wordpress.com
  Since I had that username for a minute, it “reserved” the URL.
  Is there any way to free that up since the username is deleted?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jul 23, 2012 at 9:35 pm

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  Unfortunately, no. Since the username was deleted, the reserved blog is no longer available.