Its becoming increasingly frustrating to come up with a new unique names when creating a new toon because of the old inactive accounts. Many of them are simply taken by people who tried the game in 2008 boom period and left after a month.
This will become even a bigger nightmare after the EU/US server merges.
So Funcom please remove/clear old and inactive accounts from your database. Lets say at least 2008/2009 ones. Same goes for a boom period during the introduction of F2P model. Many names must be blocked by 10ish level Tortage toons...