Thanks Thunder22, I think a lot of us probably visit here a bit; it's just that having a UK forum which is geared more or less to UK based BMW stuff is really useful to us - the different sides of the pond are treated very differently by BMW and the specs of the cars differ even though they are built in the US!

I think I'm beginning to smell a rat with the disappearance of the X forum, though, as there is an ex-member there (who visits here a lot too) who was thrown off for abusive behaviour and has been repeatedly returning under different aliases he has signed up on; who knows, perhaps the site admin was "persuaded" by the ex-member with the grudge to have this happen, then the unexpected arrival of our Canadian student friend (NOT) complicated the matter even more.....

I somehow don't think the X forum will ever revive as it was, but I hope those of us who enjoyed its assistance and the friendships we made there, will somehow get together to form a new one, make it more robust against things like this happening again. You live and learn. While the godfather may not have had anything to do with the expiry of the domain, he cashed in on an unfortunate situation and obviously has no morals - here's hoping he lives in interesting times.

The loss is not so much the domain name, its all the forum info on X5s, which was pretty extensive. But I'm sure we can start again if need be.