I’ve not kept in the loop with regards the France-Airsoft politics, but I got an email from one of the current admins which detailed that they had lost control over their domain france-airsoft.com and that their forums could now be found at france-airsoft.fr.
If you check the “lost” domain there’s a long letter which in short details how the individual that has control of the domain fell out with the association behind France-Airsoft.
The basic gist of it looks to be an argument over server and service funding which resulted in an internal disagreement and expulsion of the affected party (for those that don’t speak French you can check this translation ).
Obviously this is only one side of the dispute and preceeding story, but the basic story is not a unique one in Airsoft circles.