I understand where you are coming from, but in my opinion I feel like if you paid at any point to begin playing the game, they shouldn't clear names. It sucks when there is a name you are dying for that has been sitting on a character untouched for a year, two, or more -- but on the other hand, going back to the game and finding you lost all the names you had created would really piss me off. The only places I've seen that actually wiped inactive names are pet sites and other non-MMO related sites. That and playing certain.. servers with Ragnarok Online experiencing entire wipes and making mad dashes to lock in 16 character names :P

That's just my opinion, though.