K1 is actually older than that, K1 used to use a different forum core, and hopped around on free ddns services until moving to the SMF core in 2009 and consuming enough traffic to be kicked off all the free ddns providers eventually forcing Kureha to buy a domain name...
Anyways, welcome, you made it past the broken email verification or slipped in through oneall before they blocked new members for going over the free plan.