Since the idea was to be #1 PVP player for only one week to get this, I think it could be a nice extra feature to boost PVP activity on the server. A sort of competition within the competition to keep the title.
Of course, official realms never needed this to be implemented to get enough PVP players but as observed before on several occasions, this can be different on private servers... Doesn't necessarily need the teleport spell reward though, the titles are just great. Who wouldn't like to be a Deathlord of the Undercity?
There are also the "negative" ranks that can be found in just a minute on a default 1.12 MaNGOS build. These ranks remain unused to this day but are in the actual game, it's not just a "MaNGOS feature". The four ranks are Dishonored (rank -1), Exiled (rank -2), Outlaw (rank -3) and Pariah (rank -4). This also relates to it:
Even among enemies as bitter as the Horde and the Alliance, there is honor. If you flaunt this honor and engage in objectionable PvP play, such as killing new players vastly inferior to you in level, or killing essential non-combat NPCs such as flight masters or quest givers, you will earn dishonor. If you accumulate enough dishonor through your criminal actions, you will be branded an outlaw. As a consequence, you'll suffer experience penalties, lose access to your own faction cities, and become so hated even by your own kind that every faction NPC will attack you on sight.
Even if one could turn to goblin cities instead of their faction cities, these consequences ideas were maybe a bit extreme! But I do think there should be big drawback, if this is ever implemented, or we will most likely see a lot of players with these titles, imho.
Anyway, I think having these negative ranks obtainable somehow would bring great RP possibilities and could add a purpose to some useless activities like grinding dishonorable kills. The goal is double: to have little features that other 1.12 servers lack, and more exciting things to do between raids, which brings me to another point...
Any thoughts on these two possibilities? (Besides "lel go play wotlk u nob", please
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to turn in their quest before returning to the mindless mob-bashing grind fest, and maybe even engage with other players trying to defend their town! Even if it means that sometimes the quest giver is dead, I would be excited to play in a more dynamic experience than the boring static towns with NPCs idling 24/7 where absolutely nothing is happening anytime, because DHKs are there and there is no point in attacking it.