europebattlenet and 4vendeta are cool looking sites but registration is down. would be cool to see if someone can get a retail version and host on their own.
reasons i dont want to play on blizzard servers is the same reason i dont play other games on blizzard servers. people are jerks and hack the servers like crazy. plainly i dont trust them.
I'll be looking into mooege (modify it) and see if i can get my own server going and have success in setting my own public one. I'll be happy to share it here.