As far as I know there is not a 24 hour waiting period. I think that this stemmed from confusion from some URLs being stuck in limbo due to a glitch (more info below).
There has been a lot of confusion about whether or not there is a 24 hour waiting period after a URL is released for it to become available. It can be a pretty useful resource since it keeps you updated through email. Additionally, followthatpage is a website that sends you a message when a webpage changes. Running through whichever URLs you are watching this way is not only faster than checking each individual webpage, but it is also the only definitive way to tell if a URL is available or not. It will immediately tell you if the URL is taken or not. Instead of typing in the webpage, attempt to change the URL of a sideblog to your desired URL. There is another process to check availability that I think works better. Many people are checking if an inactive blog has become available by looking at its webpage (). Here’s a link to support’s post about the process. There does not seem to be any order to the time and day of releases, so a URL you want could become available at anytime.
People with inactive blogs received emails giving a timeline of when the URL would be released (if they don’t respond), but this timeline isn’t fully accurate since the URLs are being released in a staggered fashion. Instead, URLs are being released periodically. The whole process has been pretty confusing and glitchy, so I thought I’d make a guide compiling information about it.Īpparently, all of the URLs were supposed to be released at the same time, but this was too much for the servers to handle. Tumblr has begun releasing URLs that have not been active in over two years.