Website Renaming

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  pumpkinninja · Member · May 26, 2016 at 5:13 pm

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  My old site’s URL was kavikondala.wordpress.com

  I deleted this site to create another one. The URL of my new site is rishikweb.wordpress.com

  However, now I want to rename my new site (rishikweb.wordpress.com) to kavikondala.wordpress.com

  When I try to do this, it says that that name is already taken, even though I deleted my old site. How can I fix this?

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  timethief · Member · May 26, 2016 at 5:20 pm

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  Deleting a blog URL is not easily done and multiple warnings that deletion is intended to be permanent and non-reversible are given all along the way.

  Deleted blog URLs are not recycled, regardless of who registered and deleted them and the only exceptions are made are for URLs that were deleted 2 or more years ago. 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/