The official website of City of Heroes released the City of Heroes and City of Villains Character Name Policy will be re-enacted with some changes on 29th, August.

Official Press Release:

City of Heroes Character Name Policy Change

Starting 8/29/2007 the City of Heroes and City of Villains Character Name Policy will be re-enacted with some changes. As previously announced last year, we are hereby giving players 30 days notice that this policy will be turned back on effective Wednesday, August 29, 2007.

Names for characters below level 6 on game retail accounts that have been inactive for over 90 days will be changed to unreserved status. This means that those names will become available for new character names if picked by an active (subscribed) player. This policy is being enacted in order to free up character names based on player feedback and for our Character Transfer and Rename features.

If your game account is inactive for over 90 days and you reactivate your account you will need to log back in to any characters affected by this policy to move them out of unreserved name status. If your old character name has been taken by an active player, the game will prompt you to rename your character. You will be given only one opportunity to rename your character. It is possible that your character name may still be the same if an active player has not chosen to use that character name. Your global handle will not be affected.

If you have any characters with unreserved name status, you can identify them in the character select screen as those characters with no avatar (character model) displayed.

If you do not log in to the game with a character in unreserved name status, the characters name will remain available to any active player until you log that character in to the game. Logging into the game with the affected character will change the characters name status back to reserved.