Many have said that they'd bring a TBDev site back but nothing ever comes of it. It would be nice if someone did though!
But if anyone ever did they would need to have at the very least have taken copies of posts along with any attachments associated with them, one of the main items that previous people had asked for was the '08 Mods Section.
Even if you could somehow contact CF I'd be surprised if you ever received a reply but personally I would not even bother trying to get permission that he'd never give as how I see it and maybe many others also, he dropped many sites in the crap when the site suddenly went offline without any warning.
- He removed access to the '08 Section.
- He alienated many members some of which were high contributors to the site and without them many Mods and conversions would never have been made.
- As above left many site owners high and dry by closing down without care and warning. This I believe was so that no one could then crawl the site to make offline copies?