Presumably, a browser with a bookmark for "freerepublic.com" will find the site, wherever it's located, as soon as the master incices for the internet are updated, which shouldn't take too long (unless everyone who does that chore is away for the holidays). Therefore, while you toil away to improve things, the rest of us can just wait it out, secure in the knowledge that we're in good hands. If I'm wrong in this, and if we need to do something special to locate the site, please let us know.
Be prepared.
There was some problem with the DNS entries for FR a few months back. Some people put entries in their hosts file so they could get to FR without DNS. Hopefully they will all remember to change those entries when the new IP address is posted.