Rasputin - because Putin will get mad
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Rootin’ Tootin’ Putin is coming for your names!
Best tell these people then: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/search?q=Ragnaros
A lot of these name bars were created later into WoWs life and make little sense.
I’ve just checked and it seems that the name Ragnaros is not restricted. It might be taken on your realm.
Strange. When i tried it it was a green V amd i gott hell yeah! but then it said its not allowed.
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I guess they take no action until a few people report it.
People reported me alot. But nothink happened.
Same thing happened to me with the name ‘’ Garrosh ‘’ though I was able to get it on some other realm.
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I laughed at this way harder than I should have…
I guess its more about other players being juvenile and not just a certain part of your sister’s name. What you have to remember is this : People/players/the public will be arseholes for as long as they can get away with it - even if it means that they hurt others around them, just because they can. Sod them! Find something they cant abuse and if it so happens that they can well they’re small minded and pitiful and certainly not worth your time 
It upset me i was like oh yeah i can call my monk Rasputin and it has that lovely historical ring of a crazy partying monk who enjoyed partying and causing the downfall of entire empires… blizz said no
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Oh but it is:
- https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00001094226
- https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:o6tx7w.2.3
- https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/000174946
Yes.
What about Rararasputin, Azeroth’s greatest love machine?
That’s a really weird one that makes no sense. I know Rasputin’s daughter was quite prickly about her father’s (Deserved) reputation “He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!” 
But she died in the 1970’s I think, and his current descendants are more kind of like “Dude was an utter Playa, man.” Which he was! So naming a character ‘Rasputin’ isn’t exactly harming anyone? I mean he never did anything -evil-, so he’s not like silly moustache man, or Stalin, or even worse, Beria. He just was a cheeky conman and a bit of a Jack the Lad. He never actually killed anyone in his life, nor ordered it. All the ladies he romanced were always willing, and frankly, he must have had the silver tongue of all silver tongues to woo them all, because he never apparently bathed, or washed his hair, he must have reeked like a privy. Perhaps it is that ‘animal magnetism’ people talk about.
Bizarrely, as catchy as the Boney-M song ‘Ra-Ra-Rasputin’ is, and it so is, the truth is even more incredible than the song related. Invited to Prince Yusupov’s house in a party with the other conspirators, he first of all ate several cakes of a type known to be his favourite, that were each laced with enough Cyanide to kill three people. Then they poisoned his wine, again, in toxicity quantities enough to kill multiple people. His assassins went away to have a rethink. Rasputin was just ‘a bit sleepy’ Felix Yusupov lost his temper and just stormed back in and shot him in the chest and returned to his co-conspirators and said the deed was done. Rasputin did indeed look dead. When they nudged him to make sure, Rasputin reared up, flinging them aside (Despite being a Monk he was a bit of an absolute unit in terms of height and muscle) and bulled his way through the group to the outside. Despairing of any subtlety, the group started bludgeoning him to death with cudgels, but he just -kept getting back up!- Eventually they bound him in a cloth wrap and threw him into a freezing river, where finally he eventually perished of drowning or Hypothermia or both.
What does this tell us?
Rasputin would be a perfect character name for any Class like Shaman that has a self-resurrect ability, or possibly a Hunter with a trinket giving him a shorter ‘Feign Death’ cooldown!
Certainly there is no reason why the name itself should be proscribed…
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Genuinely think its because it contains Putin, that’s my conclusion anyway.
Do you know, that genuinely hadn’t crossed my mind, but of course, it does, so you are more than likely right on that matter!
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Absolutely right! We gotta’ have them change their nonsensical policy, gentlemen.
Sounds like a brilliant idea, though too bad Blizzard don’t want you to have fun.
Is that so?
Blizzard, listen to this.
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