Dedicated Servers?

[Tourmalyn]

Are there plans by any idividuals/Groups to host dedicated servers for long term games? ie in the spirit of MUDs like Tradewars?

It would be cool to have long running games with 17 players involved. The only way you could do this would be to have a dedicated server up 24/7 so players could play their turns at their leasure. Turns could be open for a maximum of 24 hrs, but would advance if all players ended turn.

This is my first exposure to Dominions, and I don't claim to have an original idea here, so don't flame me if this is already going on in Dominions 1.