People with level 1 character names.

[Sandoria]

The surnames are one of the reasons I love this game. If you want a classic name, you can have one! Just got to be creative with what kind of last name fits your character. Surnames were a slice of heaven after playing mmo's like WoW where literally every name under the sun was taken. Like others above have said, I think taken names are only an issue when dealing with canon characters or celebrity names.

[Devils_Lawyer]

This will never happen simply because by any odd chance that said lvl 1 player comes back 6 months later he should be able to rely on SE that his character + name hasnt been removed.

If a game company starts deleting inactive characters their reputation is gonna drop like a stone tied to an anvil.

[Dijana]

If a game company starts deleting inactive characters their reputation is gonna drop like a stone tied to an anvil.

It's not actually a new thing, though they would generally just flag a character for rename before deleting an inactive one. Many games do such a thing but it's usually after a lot longer than a year (unless it's like the case of WoW where you can request a name to be freed up, they'll do so if the one holding it is on an account thats been inactive for a certain time and the character is of lower level)

That said, I really don't think this game needs names cleared up. As others said it's really only an issue if you want an unoriginal name or something silly like words forming a phrase rather than an actual name.

[niwaar]

This will never happen simply because by any odd chance that said lvl 1 player comes back 6 months later he should be able to rely on SE that his character + name hasnt been removed.

If a game company starts deleting inactive characters their reputation is gonna drop like a stone tied to an anvil.

Not going to say that I want this to happen, but MANY game companies have done name purges on inactive characters. That being said, those MMOs waited until their title was out for 3+ years before doing this. Other MMOs have done this by the sneaky method of server migration/merges. Aion actually renamed everyone and gave everyone a rename scroll and said "whoever logs in first and grabs your name, wins!". I even had a name "retaken" in WoW a few years ago. Its something that may happen in the future, but the far far far future. Anyone that wants a taken name these days needs to find a different surname (but please no more Legolassss, or Clooud, or SephirothXX).