Wow, I'm sort of late to this thread (I haven't read it all, so sorry if I repeat someone else) ...but yeah, I'm guessing Ecko would know the NA community better than Shik, right? I mean, I've seen Ecko wayyy more than I've seen Shik, unless he's been hiding under other names, and as he said, he has been running the main servers for North America. I'm sure it's been suggested, but what if Ecko owned the servers with chadz still having all the power? I'm sure people will help fund this server regardless of who owns it (I know I will), but it's sort of like giving Ecko the middle finger if someone we admins have had problems with is the one donating the server.
Or..how about we make the current NA servers (Ecko's) official, and we get an entirely new box for the Strategus server (I don't believe the owner of just the strat server is as important of the official servers)? Hell, you can even repick the admins if you feel it's necessary chadz. Wouldn't everyone win that way?