While I don't necessarily agree with this author's motivation, I do wish that there were easier ways to claim names from Twitter/etc. For example, someone camp

While I don't necessarily agree with this author's motivation, I do wish that there were easier ways to claim names from Twitter/etc. For example, someone camped on the twitter name for progscrape.com (twitter.com/progscrape) and then got it suspended. Twitter won't release a name like that unless you've specifically got a registered trademark. That's pretty expensive for a side-project. There _should_ be a balance in releasing names in a global namespace, but it should err in the side of not taking names away from legitimate users. A one-year waiting period is probably a decent balance.