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==Temporary shutdown and return ==
Nearly a year after it was created, BugMeNot was shut down temporarily by its service provider (at that time), [[HostGator]]. The site's creator claimed BugMeNot's host was pressured by websites to shut them down, though Hostgator claimed that the BugMeNot site was repeatedly crashing their servers.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Metz|first= Rachel|url=http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2004/08/64676|title=BugMeNot Gets Booted, Restored|magazine= [[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |date=August 23, 2004}}</ref>

The BugMeNot domain was transferred briefly to another hosting company, dissidenthosting.com, but before the site was set up, it began to redirect visitors to web pages belonging to racist groups, without the knowledge or consent of the site's owner. BugMeNot moved again, to [[NearlyFreeSpeech|NearlyFreeSpeech.NET]]. BugMeNot's move to this provider, which also hosts a number of highly controversial sites, prompted BugMeNot's creator to say, "Personally, I don't care if I'm sharing a server with neo-Nazis. I might not agree with what they have to say, but the whole thing about freedom of speech is that people are free to speak."<ref>[[Xeni Jardin|Jardin, Xeni]]. "[http://www.boingboing.net/2004/08/20/bugmenotcom_returns_.html Bugmenot.com returns, spokesbugperson says some news sites trying to block it] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040831033223/http://www.boingboing.net/2004/08/20/bugmenotcom_returns_.html |date=August 31, 2004 }}". ''[[Boing Boing]]''. August 20, 2004.</ref>

Shortly after BugMeNot returned, reports surfaced that some news sites had begun to attempt to block accounts posted on BugMeNot, though the extent and effectiveness of such efforts, as well as compliance with BugMeNot's Terms of Use,<ref>BugMeNot. "[http://www.bugmenot.com/terms.php Terms of Use]". Accessed April 8, 2006.</ref> are not known.