Character name unavailable after deletion?

[Bepoish]

Hello. 

 

Ever since yesterdays patch that deletes high level character in 12 hours, I deleted one of my high level characters to re-use the name that it had. Once it was deleted I immediately recreated it and it says the name was taken already. I went in-game on another character and press F2 and looked up the ign but no results came up, only derivations of it. Is this a bug? Or did someone really happen to take that ign within the time-frame of the character being deleted and me creating the new character (which took like 10 seconds at most)? 

[Franny]

Deleted character names are unavailable for 24 hours after deletion.

[Lurkios]

Take care, as the "24 hour" hour, going purely by forum reports, is more of a "24'ish hour" timer. If the name is something common you might want to start giving it a go an hour before you expect it to release.

[Bepoish]

Thanks for replying. I actually checked again and it seems like someone else got it so nothing I can do lol. I don't know why I couldn't get it as soon as it deleted but someone else got it before the "24 hour-ish" timer was up. That is aggravating :(