I wish they gave us a heads up. For years now, I have made a habit out of ‘trying’ names each time I log onto the game not knowing when it will happen.
This just happened to be a lucky day between now and the reported release 3 days ago by another user a bit further up in this thread. It shouldn’t be luck and the community ought to get some sort of notification that this is happening, especially for people on timezones that would not align with freeing up names on a Saturday.