Like most miners I set up ahead of time with failovers. I usually use Dedicated and they are first in my list of pools for this, but I'm curious as to why the pool is accepting shares already? Where are they going? Not sure why the stratum for this would be up when the coin hasn't been released yet. I'd prefer my failovers to kick in before this coin is active. Also if Dedicated isn't ready I have other pools for this coin that I'd prefer my miners go to instead of just hashing away at some mystery coin.
they are stealing your hash

Stealing would mean :
You're already hashing a coin and they redirect that hash to another coin.
It's a dead stratum, it's a pre-register. Why would you keep your miners pointed on a dead stratum?
Hash something else, until this one launches.
It's not a dead stratum, it's alive and accepting hashes. That's not how you set up a pre-register for a pool. Come on now, no other pool does that and I've never seen Dedicated do it either.
Do I really need to explain how setting up failovers is -supposed- to work? Won't use Dedicated in the future if they do this, it defeats the entire purpose of setting up a failover chain for new coin launches.
And yes I put Dedicated as #1, which I can change but it doesn't matter because the stratum is up. Even if it's #5 in my list my miner will go to that and stick on it because it's alive. So Dedicated can't be in my list at all...it's seriously stupid.