WotLK Restricted/forbidden names?

[anishya]

Hellou, I was wondering what might be the reason for some names being unavailable for players even though they are not offensive?
Earlier today I was thinking about the npc Maiev Shadowsong, and thought heyyyy there isnt a player with the her first name so its free to take, but nope, can't use it.
Even the name "God" is in the same class of forbidden names, that I always felt was because of possible chaos it might cause ingame with some people, and thought GMs made a simple effective choice when making it unavailable, hundred less tickets to worry about lol

I am not implicating they should be available, but only interested in the mechanics/reasoning why are some names unavailable like that. Targeting system errors, when npc has same name as player? oh the mysteries

[Mitzen]

I think NPC names became a no no some time ago.

There once was a player named Applebough. Thus a Dalaran vendor NPC had an impressive 6k+ GS.

[Shred]

The list of forbidden names is somewhere around the client itself. The client doesn't allow you to use a forbidden name.

For a while the server didn't check the list, so people would modify their clients to remove the check and the server would happily accept names that should be forbidden.

[anishya]

Ahh yeah, scamming- should've been obvious answer :D thanks for replies !