Yes, and not to mention that immediate access to the marketplace caused all kinds of problems.
Like this one:
http://zilvia.net/f/off-topic-chat/3...hat-gives.html
Let us also think of all the people we pink/ban/ban from marketplace who immediately start a new name just to be able to access the marketplace again. If re-registering will do approximately NOTHING to benefit the person doing it, then eventually people will cease doing it, which means we need to ban fewer people in the long run.