Greetings
I deleted 1 char on Pandawowx100 from 2017 a few days ago. After creation of a new toon on the same account, the name was taken by a level 1 chars. I tested it again and deleted the next bank char and the name was immediately reserved after again.
Finally I opened the armory, deleted the 3rd char and saw 1 sec after deletion how a level 1 char appeared. The 3 names were Ivex, Ivexz, Jadez.
This can't be a coincidence, it must be a program which creates a level 1 char on a foreign account and uses the name. It's unlikely that a bot program is testing names. I suppose that pandawow contains a bug in scripts which creates "ghost chars" after the deletion of old chars. If I delete the next char, it would also be creating a next level 1 char immediately after the extinction.
It never happened on other servers, just here in 3/3 tests. My interests aren't the names, I just want an answer what happened and will it happen again in future?
Imagine that I transfer a char from alliance to horde and got the announcement after the transaction that the same name is used by a level 1 char which was created while transaction was active and reserved the name; I have to rename.
Kind regards