Thanks to lemming for the advice. I haven't played the game in 5+ years (yeah, the registration date is 2005 for me...) so am very rusty. So thanks.
I just logged in again recently with the announcement about Guild Wars 2 and keeping old character names. I was shocked to find that my ancient characters were still around. In almost every other MMO, they would have been renamed in some server merge or another by now...