What happened to the Phoenix-forums com?

Answer 1

It has been shut down. If you Google them, you find out that they had replaced the main site with a farewell page before the complete shutdown who read:

Phoenix-Forums. Sorry The Phoenix-Forums has closed. *. © 2008 - 2011 The Phoenix-Forums © RIP.

Their Twitter channel has already been taken over by a spammer and some other people who try to lure people to their forums with mostly malware infected sharings.

Tried to see if there was a reason of why the shutdown happened there, but the admins did not even bother to mention anything there.

Just shows how these forums was run at the end, with a lack of interest from even the admins them selves.

So that is perhaps the reason for the shut down: Admins lost of interest to continue on.