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If you really want to stick it to "the man", you should just use the raw IP address for your blog and forgo the domain name! ;)

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Ah, but your provider got those IPs from one of the regional registries* (ARIN, RIPE NCC, etc.), who got them from the IANA, which is a division of...ICANN!

(* Unless it's a legacy IPv4 allocation that predates the RIR system.)

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