No I think we can pronounce World Hub DOA. With all due respect to Vorsprung and my fellow towns; The time for World Hub has come and gone. This window of opportunity for the concept has closed. Most towns have nether rails systems connecting to each other (or piggy back).
There were technical limitations that we never addressed (IE 1 guy owning more that 8 blocks of land), location complaints, building rights,and a lack of Vorsprung's availability which lead to nothing happening besides the original land grab
I am still today what I would call a champion of the concept, but for this world it's just a concept. It's time has come and left.
Please note that I would support Vorsprung and a similar attempt in the next world; I think we just need to take notes, lick the wounds, and know what we need to do to make it better next go 'round'.
Planning for it now would probably not be a mistake; but yah,
/me pulls out a gun and shoots 1.0 World Hub in the head