Using a deleted username

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  littlemoorelove · Member · Aug 31, 2018 at 1:33 pm

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  Is it really 100% impossible to claim a deleted username? Just wanting to confirm. Thank you!

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  dkmyta · Member · Aug 31, 2018 at 2:10 pm

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  Hey there,

  As outlined here in the official documentation in the highlighted grey box at the top, Once you change your username you will not be able to change it back and the old name will not be available for you or anyone to use.

  Hope this helps!

  Cheers

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Aug 31, 2018 at 2:11 pm

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  Hi –

  That’s correct. Usernames are not recycled in any way.

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  littlemoorelove · Member · Aug 31, 2018 at 2:31 pm

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  Thank you! May I also ask– is it not possible anymore to get a username.wordpress.com address for a blog? username.home.blog seemed to be my only option. Thank you!

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  littlemoorelove · Member · Aug 31, 2018 at 2:32 pm

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  Thank you both! May I also ask– is it not possible anymore to get a username.wordpress.com address? It seemed that username.home.blog was my only option. Thank you!

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  justjennifer · Member · Sep 2, 2018 at 11:39 am

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  Hi there, dothomedotblog is being suggested along with a number of other dotblog subdomains.

  If you are still trying to obtain a dotwordpressdotcom subdomain, Staff earlier advised in a different thread to try registering here https://wordpress.com/start/domains and to skip the first step asking what your site is about.

  Hope that helps

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  kokkieh · Staff · Sep 2, 2018 at 2:33 pm

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  Hi there,

  Skipping the first step should allow you to pick a WordPress.com address, as @justjennifer says above, yes. Please let us know if that wont’ work either.