Doubtful since the idea is to get those trial players to keep playing. Putting all these new players, testing out an MMO, on a dead server with no population would be counter-productive to the goal of turning them into subscribers.
One my alt names was taking on my new server, no biggie.
Since none of the transfer destinations were posted ahead of time the only way you could have "planned ahead" was to reserved your name on every server...
I've gotten the pet in-game but the 30 days have not shown up on my account yet- it's still expiring in May.
Funny, I didn't receive an updated email...