Why can't I use my old blog name?
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I had a blog at http://cessationofstupidity.wordpress.com a while back, and I’d like to start it up again. I deleted the blog a couple years ago, but when I type in the name “cessationofstupidity” as the web site name, to add a new site, it says it already exists. Can you help?
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No we can’t “help”. You had to ignore multple warnings that site deletion was permanent and irreversible to delete the URL. I am sorry but you cannot claim a deleted blog URL. No one can use a deleted blog URL regardless of who registered it. Deleted blog URLs are not recycled here and you can confirm by reading:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/delete-blog/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/However, you can register another blog with a similar name. http://en.support.wordpress.com/register-a-blog/
Or you can register a domain via a domain mapping upgrade and it will not matter what the underlying .wordpress.com address is.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/ -
Well, it’s been quite some time (years) since I ignored those warnings and deleted my URL, so I didn’t remember. Thanks for the links and suggestions.
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