Its even more interesting than that. It was only one phone number out of the four listed on the registration that was wrong (was a 555 number). And all the email addresses listed were good. And the registrar (GKG.net) claimed to have tried to contact them several times (although John Rob says he never heard from them) before they just up and pulled the plug.
It seems pretty fishy to me.
http://www.whois.net/whois.cgi2?d=freerepublic.comVeeerrry fishy. Anyone check the registrar's political affiliation?