You're a funny guy Iron Wolf.
Those "top sites", "top 200" sites and so on have been around for years, at least a decade. They're just link aggregation websites, and they're easily exploited. They aren't created by publishers, which is just common sense. Publishers don't make money when you're donating to your pal's server host. Also, in many if not most cases, it's up to users to report dead links. When that doesn't happen, they just pile up like corpses. Back when they were used for the first handful of MMORPG emulators, they were actually useful. I used a handful of them. But I don't know of any emulator besides UO that could have had hundreds of servers listed at any one time which actually turned out to be real servers and not dead links (or spam or harmful links). Nowadays there aren't even that many UO servers comparatively. For a long time, UO's emulator community actually set up their own "top site" which ran in a small client and allowed you to connect automatically using Razor, a standard launch program that works for almost any UO shard. The reason behind this was simple. The top sites had become bloated with dead and useless links, so the community built its own link list similar to a "top site", but link owners had to register a link, and then maintain their links or else they would expire and disappear.
I've seen you post about this (yes, time and time again), but I guess I just didn't think you sounded all that committed to the idea. To be honest, you still sound somewhere between serious if unresearching, and "having a laugh on us". I keep thinking there needs to be a winky emoticon after your posts. Or maybe you just figure it's no skin off your back if one of us gets hassled by NCSoft's lawyers, or worse. Or, maybe you're just telling us what you think is going on. Fair enough.
I'm not saying those servers aren't out there. I'm sure some or many are. But that's not all you're suggesting. The people who want to take the time and effort to bring a game back will have things to consider, including whether they think their approach is a calculated risk, a worthwhile risk, or just an unnecessary risk.