Same question here,some say that TJ sold the website,others says that he has technical issues..until now no one has a 100% sure answer to this question but I feel like that's thebotnet has come to an end..R.I.P not to be pessimistic,but it was planned that it gonna die soon
It's very surprising because looked like it was a huge forum with plenty big community and owner was making aweful a lot too
check this
http://trafficgangster.club/threads/tbn-thebot-net-is-down-heres-why.2149/There's plenty of people around asking what the actual fuck has happened to TBN where the owner rage quit, or if there's some technical issue or site got suspended.. well I've figured why the site has been down for past few weeks.
TBN as we know uses OVH hosting.
OVH hosting has been having some serious technical difficulties for past week hence a lot of the sites are down.
Surprisingly they haven't posted anything about it on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/OVHBut if you check their servers status you will notice a lot of them show incidents:
http://status.ovh.co.uk/Hope this help those wondering..