Forum Hijacked?

[19CenturyWBTS]

Greetings Forumotion Team,

today I've run into the following problem: A while ago I created a forum:

archaeology.forumotion.co.uk

but didn't have the time to do a lot of work on it. Today I wanted to return and make some updates, but the forum is "gone" or rather it suddenly auto-links to some obscure Arabian site. No matter what browser I use I can't get to the original forum I created.

I've no clue what to do now or how to get the forum back or whether you guys can actually do something. I hope you guys can help!

Thanks!

[Tommy Lee]

Hello,

Have you got any members on your forum?

[SLGray]

How long ago did you create the forum?  Also was there any activity after you created it?

[Neptune-]

Hello ^^

If the forum had less than 3 posts and less than 3 members, it has probably been auto-deleted.

Once forum is deleted, its url may redirect to a similar one.
In your case it redirects to same subdomain archaeology, only domain and TLD change.

[19CenturyWBTS]

Thanks everyone for your help so far - this is much appreciated!

The forum had been created on 2014-02-18 10:07:36 am (straight from the forum creation/verification e-mail). I had no members yet as I deliberately had turned off the ability for new members to join (as it was a specialized forum for archaeology students from a single university in the UK).

Hmmm - I didn't know that a forum is automatically deleted if there is no activity or if there are no active members.

So where does that leave me? Do I have to re-create everything?

[Neptune-]

Try to restore it via founder's tools
-> The Utilities - Backup and Restore
-> https://www.forumotion.com/utils

[SLGray]

If it has been deleted, and you can not restore it, you can try creating a new forum.

[Shadow]

Your forum is an arabic forum. So please ask for help to the arabic support ;)http://help.ahlamontada.com/

Thanks