I'm trying to fix a 'duplicate feed' issue

Hey there. A podcast I'm working on previosuly went through Podomatic. That did not work out for many reasons. I builet a new XML feed. I've checked it in iTunes, feedvalidator, etc and it's totally fine. I got an error, though, because apparently Podomatic's XML feed for the podcast still exists even though I deleted the account.
I spoke with iTunes help and they told me to resubmit the feed with a changed 'title' and 'link' and then change it back to the original once it's accepted. Does the link need to go to a totally different domain, or can I just use a different page or directory on the initial domain? Support can't seem to answer that question at all, and I have been through hours of calls.
I re-submitted and went with a different domain, but I'm worried since I haven't received a confirmation and it's been longer than it normally takes.
Thank you!

There's no easy way of knowing. There is a bug in the submissions process whereby if a feed has been removed or rejected you are still told it's already been submitted if you submit a new feed with the same title. In your case just removing the original feed may not have caused the Store page to be removed (though it would be eventually) which would of course make the error an actual one (since the Store would still be looking for the old feed).
You have to make the feed look like a new podcast. Presumably you have a different feed URL; you will certainly need to change the title though a small change should in theory do it. As to the 'link' tag, changing this is usually also recommended, though I don't know how essential this is, nor whether it matters that the domain be different.
It can take a couple of weeks to get an acceptance or rejection - if you didn't get an immediate rejection on your last submission that's a good sign, so it's possible your podcast is under consideratioin and it's just a question of waiting.
One other point: if you've changed the title and are considering changing it back, make sure that doing so will not change the feed URL as will happen with some podcast creation methods. If the feed filename doesn't contain the title of the podcast you should be OK, but if it does and changes when you change the title then obviously iTunes will lose contact with the feed.

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