Want to use site name that says it already exists, but it doesn't.

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  cameals · Member · Mar 29, 2014 at 4:37 pm

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  I want to change my blog/site address and it says it’s already taken. When I visit the site, it says the authors have deleted the site. Does that mean it will be available soon? The URL is milkandchocolate.wordpress.com.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 29, 2014 at 4:39 pm

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  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/

  To prevent accidental or inadvertent deletion of blogs, there are multiple warnings given that blog deletion is permanent and irreversible. Lastly, a verification link is sent in an email and it must be clicked to delete a blog. If clicking that link does not work then copy and paste it into your upper browser window and click. Once the verification link for deletion is clicked the blog URL is forever gone, gone, gone.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/

  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/