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Originally Posted by TheGodfather
You are all going to find it very difficult to shame a student who might make a few bucks.
Also I find it hard to believe the owners of successful forums only make enough money from the site to keep the site running.
I have obviously made a very dumb mistake of not remaining anonymous on this issue.
All of your negative and "kumbaya" comments have done nothing but made me more stubborn on this issue.
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Hi All,
Godfather has ceased on an opportunity when the domain became available in the open market. From what I tell he has also registered the x5drivers.com about the same time.
He had every right to grab the domain because its a free for all when the domain is placed back in the pot. I'm not trying to defend his intentions because I too would like the X5D site to back online.
But he is not the root cause of the site going offline.
However, I've not seen any responses from the administrators/owners of X5D site posting any information as to why they let the domain elapse ?
Because if they wanted to keep continue with the site they had ample opportunity. Nominet who is the registry for all .co.uk domains would have suspended the domain for non-payment. They would have even tried to contact the owners by sending them a pro-forma invoice for the renewal fee assuming the correct details were logged when the domain was registered. When nominet suspend the domain, the site would go offline automatically and should have raised an alarm with the site administrators/owners. However, the legal registrant would still have enough time to renew the domain if they really wanted to.
Anyway, moving forward not sure if its worth negotiating a fee to buy the domain(s) from Godfather or to register a new domain.
More importantly, is someone out there happy to manage the site and pay the hosting fees etc.