Not everyone thinks alike for names. I've made alts with names I thought for sure would've long been taken but pleasantly surprised when they came up as usable. It helps a ton we're using First/Last names finally in MMO land, so unless its seriously a very generic name there might be some hope on that end. As for housing, if its some-odd years in the future, we've already doubled and perhaps even doubled again in terms of availability. I think the same system I was thinking about for 30-day abandonment could work here too; give people a voucher of the same plot/house type and they can get another place - only concern is items within being transferred to the new server NPC holder. Not ideal but not a total loss.

Now of course looking on the bad end of things, flames razing the forums, cats and dogs living together, that kinda stuff could very well happen too lol...