so we can get better user names, i realized that after watching this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlqIUFJis_s&feature=fvsr

They have confirmed they have plans to do this.

Indeed, the current cutoff for losing your account name (never logged in) is a bit low in my opinion, but Jagex have the tech in place to start freeing up more names for us now.

my god those were a lot of cool names with no numbers lol

yeh, they should start by banning accounts that were early banned after botting.

I heard somewhere (I think a dev diary) that they were going to delete the names of the accounts, so that others could use those names, but leave the account intact.

This is good news.
Hopefully we'll see this implemented soon...