said by Rivalman:And that's the point, they don't want people changing their names, hence the charge.
Don't want to pay anything? Don't change your name... pretty easy.
If they didn't charge I'll bet there would be a ton of name changing going on, whenever you got tired of your name, or just when you found something "funnier", people might change at that point.
Personally, I think it works as a good deterent... which I think is all they really are trying to accomplish.
If they didn't actually want people to change names, they wouldn't give you the option in the first place.