Bugmenot—the site that provides usernames and passwords to let online readers bypass annoying (and potentially privacy-invading) registrations at many news portals—has been down today, and an ominous sign stating "Notice: This domain name expired on 10/29/05 and is pending renewal or deletion" has been posted on its homepage. For many who rely on the site, this shutdown is reminiscent of when the site when offline last August, and the site's anonymous owner told BoingBoing "Our stinkin' host pulled the plug on us without notice." But this time is different, according to bugmenot's new sever host, NearlyFreeSpeech.net.

An analyst over there passed this message on to Gelf from bugmenot: "Please just let press know its a temp glitch." Hopefully, that means that the site will be back up in no time.