A WhoIs search shows that website is owned by Tucows. A canadian company that used to put out a lot of shareware.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucows
I admit that I know next to nothing about canadian laws, but would running a private server really be legal there?
The website is not owned by Tucows. Tucows is a service provider of various e-services, including being a domain registrar. That is where the domain name itself was registered. WHOIS information often reveals squat these days with the popular WHOIS privacy service most providers offer. It's against certain regulations by ICANN to provide false information during registration, so to help with that, domain providers are sort of the middle men between people who contact the domain owner and the domain owner themselves, like a forwarding service.
What it does reveal is whether or not the entity in question has something to hide, which you should be weary of
with businesses or service providers. It's not uncommon or surprising however, to find personal pages or individual entities who use it, which is fine. The reason it's being used here should be obvious; they know what they're doing is illegal and they even claim on the site they aren't affiliated with NCSoft to try and fluff it up as much as they can when they end up getting into legal waters.
What most people who use it fail to realize is that they give up the legal ownership of the domain, since technically whoever is listed on the WHOIS record is the legal owner. Of course, most providers wouldn't try to cheat anyone or abuse this power otherwise nobody would ever pay for it and they probably make more off this feature (a few extra dollars a year you have to pay) than they would make trying to claim ownership of someone elses domain who used the service where the domain was worth millions.
With that out of the way, to answer the poster above you...
That is the most unprofessional looking website I've seen in a long time. The person writing should take a writing course if they want to be taken seriously by anyone with enough education to spot a scam. I'm not claiming to be an English professor or anything but if you're going to be providing (and have the technical knowledge to do so) something as noteworthy as a 3rd party alternative to CoH, at least make a decent presentation.
I'm not saying it is, but there are alarm bells going off everywhere with that site (who contacts you by phone when they could just use a newsletter for folks who want to be notified or have questions?) Anyone seriously considering paying for a 3rd party server like that should think twice.
Besides, if they can't even design a halfway decent coming soon page, what makes you think they are going to be capable of providing the support for it?
I want an official CoH or alternative product supported by professionals or nothing at all. For some people I realize the need outweighs the risks, but for me, I'll pass. I just hope if it's a big scam that not many people are going to be taken advantage of or abused in the future.
It's like the people that set up donation websites during a headline crisis or disaster and steal from people.