Envoy,
IIRC I discussed it with a couple of mods. This has been an issue for a while, GMI policy for whatever reason frowns on name changes. The truly responsible party was IROCNROL1 who, before he went into low-activity mode, did some serious lobbying with one of the mods, possibly MIKMAK, who I think is one of the top mods here.
I'd fly it by a mod, ask for the policy, and push push push. I think they'll bend on one change, they probably don't want folks to be bugging them every two weeks for a name change, but that's speculation. I'm not privvy to the inner workings of modland.
I do know t-rex has commented that some major changes have happened at the top, and things have loosened up considerably.
There was one mod who'd bug me every time I mentioned Thomas Jefferson, sqalking about politics politics. He actually gigged me for putting in a Founders Statement in my sig.
Good luck. What do you want your new name to be?
--from the Cave.