The phantom web site owner has surfaced! So he does exist after all.

"I'm updating everything to the newest versions. The Forum is updated, but I have to reinstall a bunch of my modifications. The photo gallery should be updated in a few days. I have to buy a new license to get the newest version of the photo gallery software. The avatars might not be lost, I'm looking at a workaround, but it might take me a few days, so if people want to they can upload their avatars again. If you look at the members list, all of the avatars are still there. Hopefully everything should be back to normal within a week, and there will be new features added".

- Julian

This is the guy that had the bogus Startek $1000 prize giveaway - then disappeared from the face of the earth.