Why are deleted site subdomains never able to be used again?

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  storygenie5 · Member · Mar 29, 2022 at 10:08 am

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  How come when I delete a site, noone else can claim that subdomain?

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  storygenie5 · Member · Mar 29, 2022 at 10:10 am

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  Sorry for creating a duplicate, the site was behaving weird, and I thought that my question wasn’t propperly posting

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  aleone89 · Staff · Mar 29, 2022 at 1:16 pm

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  Hello there,

  It’s our policy that when a site is deleted permanently you’ll never be able to re-use the WordPress.com address.

  Are you looking to delete or restore a site on WordPress.com?

  Many thanks.

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  storygenie5 · Member · Mar 29, 2022 at 3:33 pm

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  I would like to restore podcastgenious.wordpress.com

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  staff-sheva · Staff · Mar 29, 2022 at 6:01 pm

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  Hi @storygenie5,

  I have restored the podcastgenious.wordpress.com to your site. Please be cautious when deleting a site in the future, as sites deleted after 30 days cannot be recovered, nor site addresses be reused.

  Hope that helps.