Tsar's Journal: The Register Has Disappeared - On Christmas Eve, No Less!

This link at Nominet.uk gives the domain registration info of The Register, which appears to been detagged on Christmas Eve!

WHOIS query result:
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Domain Name: THEREGISTER.CO.UK

Registered For: The Register

Domain Registered By: DETAGGED

Record last updated on 24-Dec-2001 by .

Domain servers listed in order:

WHOIS database last updated at 21:19:01 25-Dec-2001

The NIC.UK Registration Host contains ONLY information for domains
within co.uk, org.uk, net.uk, ltd.uk and plc.uk. Please use the whois
server at rs.internic.net for Internet Information or the whois server
at nic.ddn.mil for MILNET Information.

Is it only coincidence that this falls on the second anniversary of the Hotmail/Passport outage that gave Michael Chaney his fifteen minutes of Slashdot fame?