Why is my desired domain name not showing up again?

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  pitviperofdoom · Member · Feb 7, 2026 at 5:52 am

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  I made the mistake years ago of migrating my Tumblr to WordPress which saddled me with 9000+ posts. I’ve been wanting to wipe it clean and start over with the same URL, so I deleted it wholesale I wouldn’t have to go through 400 pages of posts deleting them a chunk at a time. But then I tried to recreate the site with the same URL, and it says it’s unavailable and keeps sticking random numbers at the end, even though when I go to the original URL it says it’s deleted.

  Should I just wait a bit to see if it sorts itself out? Did someone somehow snag my obscure domain name in the 2 minutes between deleting it and starting over?

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  staartmees · Member · Feb 7, 2026 at 7:29 am

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  When you deleted that site it was very clearly stated the wordpress.com subdomain would be locked for eternity, meaning: nobody would ever be able to use it again.