That's a true statement.

Maybe he got letter from BMW that he cannot use X5 in site name. Heard that one before. ;):D

The irony would be way to sweet for everyone wouldn't it?

I PM'd Scottie with an offer I hope she cant refuse...because its pretty much me throwing in the towel. Just waiting for her reply.

Thought I would mention that to subdue possible speculation in the mean time.

Scottie said in a previous post on this thread that she doesn't think its a good idea to use that name anymore anyway because it has" x5" in the title so wouldn't worry about selling it back!! Whether you bought this to make money or not, the previous owner of the domain name must of received emails about it expiring, especially as I had contact with the owner via email last week!

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! :thumbup:

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:yikes::yikes::yikes:) 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. :nanana::nanana:

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. :thumbup:

Thanks Godfather got your pm and have replied. for everyone else the godfather and I now have an understanding

so we can we all now really just let this one go.

I am confident the UK forum will be back and in respect to the site administrator just let it drop until we all know the full story when I get news you will all be brought up to date.

I assume your talking bout me as no one else has been thrown off, Well if your talking about me , I rejoined as algeezy1, its not that different from algeezy is it!! And I only joined to straighten something out as someone was talking about me and a freind of mine on the site notified me of it, nothing bad! Then I get an email from administrator sayin that I'm allowed to rejoin even though I didn't ask so I rejoined in another "algeezy2" only to be banned again, so I then rejoined as algeezy3 to straighten out why I had rejoined and then been banned yet again. All the user names were algeezy!! The names aint that different are they really!

We can create a sub-forum specially for you UK folks.

a very kind offer from Le Mans X5.
I see godfather has gone groveling here after someone posted his home address . BMWLand: Where Power Meets Control - UK BMW - X5 Drivers forum
he is still trying to keep control and lay down conditions instead of doing the honourable thing and just give the name back to Fiona
what a useless businessman

I was just thinking that.... Worst case maybe the owners/admins here can obtain all the cached info from the owner of the other site if he wants out of it, then create a sub-forum here with as much as possible transplanted. (don't know how much different forum versions matter in that) Otherwise a sub-forum started here from scratch would be even easier.