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'''The Survival Blog''' is the most popular [[:Category:Survivalism|Preparedness]] website on the [[Internet]] with more than 80 million unique visits since July 2005. "Since its launch in 2005, SurvivalBlog has been the Internet’s most popular daily blog on survival and preparedness topics."<ref>http://survivalblog.com/about</ref>
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'''The Survival Blog''' is the most popular [[:Category:Survivalism|Preparedness]] website on the [[Internet]] with more than 80 million unique visits since July 2005. It claims, "Since its launch in 2005, SurvivalBlog has been the Internet’s most popular daily blog on survival and preparedness topics."<ref>http://survivalblog.com/about</ref>  It is ranked as the fourth most popular survivalist blog based on its Alexa rating of 83,885.<ref>cite web|url=http://www.survivaltop50.com/|title Survival Top 50|accessdate=January 13, 2015}} (The Alexa website itself ranked it globally in 90,906th place as of January 13, 2015.)</ref>
  
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It has the tag line of: "The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times."
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It has the tag line of: "The Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times." SurvivalBlog has created a virtual "[[American Patriots|patriot]] prepper" community of people in a wide variety of disciplines. Despite their differences, they all have an interest in preparedness and survivalism.  The blog has 1,441 pages of articles.<ref>SurvivalBlog Archive DVD 2005-2013. - http://survivalblog.com/archivecd Accessed December 5, 2014.</ref>
  
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It was founded by [[Conservative]] [[Christian]] [[Libertarian]] New York Times best-selling [[:Category:Survivalism|Survivalist]] author [[James Wesley Rawles]] of the [[American Redoubt]] ([[Idaho]]-[[Montana]] area - "Somewhere West of the Rockies")
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[[James Wesley Rawles]] ("JWR") founded the blog. Rawles is a [[Conservative]] [[Christian]] [[Libertarian]] New York Times best-selling [[:Category:Survivalism|Survivalist]] author who lives "Somewhere West of the Rockies." JWR is the most popular survivalist author (for both non-fiction and [[Survivalist fiction]] / dystopian fiction) according to both the [[New York Times]] and [[Amazon.com]] and is a former [[U.S. Army]] [[Intelligence]] officer and technical writer. He is now a full-time novelist and part-time blogger and [[Survivalist retreat]] consultant. He founded SurvivalBlog in 2005, and now serves as Senior Editor. Day-to-day operation of the blog is handled by Hugh J. Latimer (“HJL”), their Managing Editor.
  
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James Wesley, Rawles (“JWR”) is the most popular survivalist author (for both non-fiction and [[Survivalist fiction]] / [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|dystopian fiction]]) according to both the [[New York Times]] and [[Amazon.com]] and is a former [[U.S. Army]] [[Intelligence]] officer and technical writer. He is now a full-time novelist and part-time blogger and [[Survivalist retreat]] consultant. He founded SurvivalBlog in 2005, and now serves as Senior Editor. Day-to-day operation of the blog is handled by Hugh J. Latimer (“HJL”), their Managing Editor.  
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JWR is a Christian, and holds to [[Calvinism|Reformed doctrine]] / [[Reformed Churches]] [[denomination]]. He has adopted the determinist view of [[history]].<ref>"1. (Sociology) social theory that human activity is determined by [[geography|geographical]] conditions. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Geographical+determinism Accessed December 5, 2014</ref><ref>[[Jared Diamond]] states "Many human phenomena and characteristics – such as behaviors, beliefs, economies, genes, incomes, life expectancies, and other things – are influenced both by geographic factors and by non-geographic factors.  Geographic factors mean physical and biological factors tied to geographic location, including [[climate]], the distributions of wild plant and animal species, [[soil]]s, and [[topography]]." http://jareddiamond.org/Jared_Diamond/Geographic_determinism.html Accessed December 5, 2014</ref> and his view of [[economics]] is of the [[Fiscal conservatism|fiscally conservative]] [[Austrian School of Economics]]. [[Political]]ly, Mr. Rawles is a [[Constitutionalist]] Christian [[libertarian]].
  
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SurvivalBlog has created a very large virtual "[[American Patriots|patriot]] prepper" community of some of the most brilliant people in a wide variety of disciplines. Despite their differences, they all have an interest in preparedness and survivalism, which is of course naturally from a [[Conservative values]] - [[Traditional values]] - [[American values]] - [[Small town values]] - [[Family values]] perspective. There are very few [[liberals]] (particularly those of the [[Teacup Generation]]) interested in "being prepared" for any difficult times or circumstances. This is because most [[leftist]]s erroneously hope they can rely on [[Big government]]-[[Welfare state]]-[[Nanny state]] ([[Obamunism]]: [[Income redistribution]] of [[ObamaCare]]-[[Social Security]]-[[FEMA]]) due their [[entitlement mentality]] [[indoctrination]] primarily from the [[Public school values]] - [[Professor values]] of the [[Public schools in the United States]] ([[Teachers' unions]]) and from the [[Hollywood values]], [[San Francisco values]] and [[Fashion industry values]] propaganda machines of the [[Mainstream media]] and its [[liberal media elite]].
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==Survivalist subject areas include (in no particular order)==
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Mr. Rawles is a Christian, and holds to [[Calvinism|Reformed doctrine]] / [[Reformed Churches]] [[denomination]]. His view of [[history]] is of the [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=geographical+determinism&ia=about geographical determinist]] school<ref>"1. (Sociology) social theory that human activity is determined by [[geography|geographical]] conditions. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Geographical+determinism Accessed December 5, 2014</ref><ref>[[Jared Diamond]] states "Many human phenomena and characteristics – such as behaviors, beliefs, economies, genes, incomes, life expectancies, and other things – are influenced both by geographic factors and by non-geographic factors.  Geographic factors mean physical and biological factors tied to geographic location, including [[climate]], the distributions of wild plant and animal species, [[soil]]s, and [[topography]]." http://jareddiamond.org/Jared_Diamond/Geographic_determinism.html Accessed December 5, 2014</ref> and his view of [[economics]] is of the [[Fiscal conservatism|fiscally conservative]] [[Austrian School of Economics]]. [[Political]]ly, Mr. Rawles is a [[Constitutionalist]] Christian [[libertarian]]. All of these have shaped his views on preparedness and thus most of the news and articles on his 1,441 pages worth of in-depth articles<ref>SurvivalBlog Archive DVD 2005-2013. The complete archive DVD of all of the SurvivalBlog posts from 2005 to 2013 contains 1,441 pages worth of in-depth articles. The files on this DVD are fully keyword searchable, and are provided in both HTML and PDF. Effectively, it emulates SurvivalBlog offline, on your PC. After it is uncompressed, it will be 2.3 GB. - http://survivalblog.com/archivecd Accessed December 5, 2014.</ref> are from this perspective.
 
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==Survivalist Subject areas include (in no particular order)==
 
 
* [[Disaster]] Preparedness (Both [[:Category:Natural Disasters|natural]] and [[:Category:Man-Made Disasters|man-made]] [[SHTF]]-[[TEOTWAWKI]])
 
* [[Disaster]] Preparedness (Both [[:Category:Natural Disasters|natural]] and [[:Category:Man-Made Disasters|man-made]] [[SHTF]]-[[TEOTWAWKI]])
 
* [[Self-sufficiency]]
 
* [[Self-sufficiency]]
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* Odds ‘n Sods
 
* Odds ‘n Sods
  
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Survival Blog tends to use a lot of [[acronym]]s. If any of them are unfamiliar, please consult the [[Survivalist Glossary]].
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==Strong Advocate of Conservapedia over Wikipedia==
 
==Strong Advocate of Conservapedia over Wikipedia==
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The Survival Blog is a staunch advocate of [[Conservapedia]] and Mr. Rawles links to it where possible, doing his best to avoid what frequently calls the "[[Wikipedia|LiberalPropagandaPedia]]."
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The Survival Blog is a staunch advocate of [[Conservapedia]] and Rawles links to it where possible, doing his best to avoid what frequently calls the "[[Wikipedia|LiberalPropagandaPedia]]."
  
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To quote him, "As I’ve mentioned before, Wikipedia’s editors have strong [[leftist]] and [[statist]] [[liberal bias|biases]]. This is evidenced by the way that they selectively delete content and gradually push the Point of View (POV) of articles to match their world views. According a SurvivalBlog reader in [[Switzerland]], the following section was deleted from Wikipedia by members of an [[gun control|anti-gun]] Wikipedia [[cabal]] on August 14, 2013. (It had been part of the [[Mayors Against Illegal Guns]] article). Never mentioned in the Wikipedia article was the fact that there are charges pending against at least seven other members of their “crime fighting” organization: Marcus Hook Mayor [[James Schiliro|James ‘Jay’ Schiliro]] - the “furnishing [[alcohol]] to a minor” charge was just dropped on a technicality, but he still faces [[misdemeanor]] charges of official oppression, recklessly endangering another person, unlawful restraint and false imprisonment, in a bizarre incident where he tried to force a young man to have [[homosexual]] relations, at gunpoint.)"<ref>156 {{Template:James Wesley Rawles authorized quotation}}  January 5, 2015 ''Embarrassing Truths: An Example of Why You Shouldn’t Trust Wikipedia'' http://survivalblog.com/embarrassing_truths_an_example_of_why_you_shouldnt_trust_wikipedia</ref>, <ref name=schiliroscandal>{{cite web|last=Bender|first=William|title=Marcus Hook Mayor arrested, seeking re-election|url=http://articles.philly.com/2013-03-22/news/37940199_1_schiliro-whelan-report-states|publisher=Philly.com}}</ref>
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JWR has noted, "As I’ve mentioned before, Wikipedia’s editors have strong [[leftist]] and [[statist]] [[liberal bias|biases]]. This is evidenced by the way that they selectively delete content and gradually push the Point of View (POV) of articles to match their world views."<ref>156 {{Template:James Wesley Rawles authorized quotation}}  January 5, 2015 ''Embarrassing Truths: An Example of Why You Shouldn’t Trust Wikipedia'' http://survivalblog.com/embarrassing_truths_an_example_of_why_you_shouldnt_trust_wikipedia</ref>, <ref name=schiliroscandal>{{cite web|last=Bender|first=William|title=Marcus Hook Mayor arrested, seeking re-election|url=http://articles.philly.com/2013-03-22/news/37940199_1_schiliro-whelan-report-states|publisher=Philly.com}}</ref>
  
 
=== 2400 Words Quotes Authorized from SurvivalBlog.com Works===
 
=== 2400 Words Quotes Authorized from SurvivalBlog.com Works===
 
In general (for non-Conservapedia editors), Rawles, founder/owner of [[The Survival Blog]], has suggested 800 words seems to be a reasonable and commonplace [[Talk:Fair_use#Authorization_by_NYT_Best-Selling_Conservative_Christian_Preparedness_Author_James_Wesley_Rawles_to_use_.22up_to_3_Quotes_of_800_Words_Each.22_of_his_Writings_per_CP_Article|Fair Use]] except/[[Conservapedia:Guidelines#Attribution|quoting]] amount for [[Fair Use]] (See [http://www.survivalblog.com/provisos.html Important Fair Use Provisos]). However, for editors of Conservapedia, on December 30, 2014, he made a special authorization of 3 times that quantity saying "You are certainly welcome to use up to three quotes of 800 words each, in any of your wiki articles."
 
In general (for non-Conservapedia editors), Rawles, founder/owner of [[The Survival Blog]], has suggested 800 words seems to be a reasonable and commonplace [[Talk:Fair_use#Authorization_by_NYT_Best-Selling_Conservative_Christian_Preparedness_Author_James_Wesley_Rawles_to_use_.22up_to_3_Quotes_of_800_Words_Each.22_of_his_Writings_per_CP_Article|Fair Use]] except/[[Conservapedia:Guidelines#Attribution|quoting]] amount for [[Fair Use]] (See [http://www.survivalblog.com/provisos.html Important Fair Use Provisos]). However, for editors of Conservapedia, on December 30, 2014, he made a special authorization of 3 times that quantity saying "You are certainly welcome to use up to three quotes of 800 words each, in any of your wiki articles."
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==Accessing the blog==
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The blog's primary IP Address is http://64.92.111.122 and a bacckup IP address of  http://50.193.232.247<ref>Survival Blog posts its IPv4 address (also referred to as a “dotted quad” or [[IP address]]) as a sort of insurance policy since recent events have proven that a [[Department of Homeland Security|government agency]] or a malicious [[hacker]] can fairly easily seize or hijack a domain name.</ref>
  
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==See Also==
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==See also==
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* [[:Category:Survivalism|Survivalist preparation]]
 
 
* [[American Redoubt]]
 
* [[American Redoubt]]
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* [[James Wesley Rawles]] of [[survivalblog.com]] and the [[American Redoubt]]
 
 
* [[Survivalist fiction]]
 
* [[Survivalist fiction]]
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* [[Kenneth Royce]] ([[Boston T. Party]]) of [[Free State Wyoming]]
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* [[Kenneth Royce]] (Boston T. Party) of [[Free State Wyoming]]
 
* [[Free State Project]]
 
* [[Free State Project]]
 
* [[Chuck Baldwin]] - renowned [[clergy]]man of the [[Montana]] [[American Redoubt]]
 
* [[Chuck Baldwin]] - renowned [[clergy]]man of the [[Montana]] [[American Redoubt]]
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* [[Mel Tappan]] - fellow [[Oregon]] [[American Redoubt]] [[:Category:Survivalism|Survivalist]] - the "Grandfather of the Survivalist movement"
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* [[Mel Tappan]] - fellow [[Oregon]] [[American Redoubt]] Survivalist - the "Grandfather of the Survivalist movement"
 
* [[Claire Wolfe]] of [[Backwoods Home Magazine]]
 
* [[Claire Wolfe]] of [[Backwoods Home Magazine]]
 
* [[Joel Skousen]] of [[World Affairs Brief]] and author of [[Strategic Relocation - North American Guide to Safe Places]]
 
* [[Joel Skousen]] of [[World Affairs Brief]] and author of [[Strategic Relocation - North American Guide to Safe Places]]
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* [[Gerard Celente]]
 
* [[Gerard Celente]]
 
* [[Survivalist retreat]]
 
* [[Survivalist retreat]]
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==Bibliography==
 
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* [[Joel Skousen|Skousen, Joel]], ''Strategic Relocation - North American Guide to Safe Places'', 3rd Edition [Perfect Paperback], 2011, ISBN-10: 1568612621, ISBN-13: 978-1568612621
 
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* [[James Wesley Rawles|Rawles, James Wesley]]. ''[[Rawles on Retreats and Relocation]]''. 1st. Clearwater, [[Idaho]]: The Clearwater Press, 2007. Print.
 
  
  
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==External Links==
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==External links==
 
* [http://www.survivalblog.com Main website]
 
* [http://www.survivalblog.com Main website]
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* Their primary IP Address: http://64.92.111.122
 
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* Backup IP http://50.193.232.247<ref>Survival Blog posts its IPv4 address (also referred to as a “dotted quad” or [[IP address]]) as a sort of insurance policy since recent events have proven that a [[Department of Homeland Security|government agency]] or a malicious [[hacker]] can fairly easily seize or hijack a domain name. This has already happened to at least 75 U.S. web sites without [[Fourth Amendment]] [[due process]] of law (http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/130763-homeland-security-dept-seizes-domain-names-). Their [[DNS]] records were changed, essentially erasing them from the “phone books of the Internet.” Also see this article: U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Web sites, ‘By Mistake’ (http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-shuts-down-84000-websites-by-mistake-110216/). To insure against this, Survival Blog is distributing their IPv4 address. This can be pasted or typed into a web browser window in place of “http://www.SurvivalBlog.com” -- http://survivalblog.com/dottedquad Accessed December 5, 2014</ref>
 
 
* http://feedvalidator.org/check?url=http://www.survivalblog.com/atom.xml
 
* http://feedvalidator.org/check?url=http://www.survivalblog.com/atom.xml
 
* [[News Reader]] [[RSS Feed]]:  http://www.survivalblog.com/atom.xml
 
* [[News Reader]] [[RSS Feed]]:  http://www.survivalblog.com/atom.xml

Revision as of 05:21, January 13, 2015

The Survival Blog is the most popular Preparedness website on the Internet with more than 80 million unique visits since July 2005. It claims, "Since its launch in 2005, SurvivalBlog has been the Internet’s most popular daily blog on survival and preparedness topics."[1] It is ranked as the fourth most popular survivalist blog based on its Alexa rating of 83,885.[2]

It has the tag line of: "The Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times." SurvivalBlog has created a virtual "patriot prepper" community of people in a wide variety of disciplines. Despite their differences, they all have an interest in preparedness and survivalism. The blog has 1,441 pages of articles.[3]

James Wesley Rawles ("JWR") founded the blog. Rawles is a Conservative Christian Libertarian New York Times best-selling Survivalist author who lives "Somewhere West of the Rockies." JWR is the most popular survivalist author (for both non-fiction and Survivalist fiction / dystopian fiction) according to both the New York Times and Amazon.com and is a former U.S. Army Intelligence officer and technical writer. He is now a full-time novelist and part-time blogger and Survivalist retreat consultant. He founded SurvivalBlog in 2005, and now serves as Senior Editor. Day-to-day operation of the blog is handled by Hugh J. Latimer (“HJL”), their Managing Editor.

JWR is a Christian, and holds to Reformed doctrine / Reformed Churches denomination. He has adopted the determinist view of history.[4][5] and his view of economics is of the fiscally conservative Austrian School of Economics. Politically, Mr. Rawles is a Constitutionalist Christian libertarian.

Survivalist subject areas include (in no particular order)

Survival Blog tends to use a lot of acronyms.

Strong Advocate of Conservapedia over Wikipedia

The Survival Blog is a staunch advocate of Conservapedia and Rawles links to it where possible, doing his best to avoid what frequently calls the "LiberalPropagandaPedia."

JWR has noted, "As I’ve mentioned before, Wikipedia’s editors have strong leftist and statist biases. This is evidenced by the way that they selectively delete content and gradually push the Point of View (POV) of articles to match their world views."[7], [8]

2400 Words Quotes Authorized from SurvivalBlog.com Works

In general (for non-Conservapedia editors), Rawles, founder/owner of The Survival Blog, has suggested 800 words seems to be a reasonable and commonplace Fair Use except/quoting amount for Fair Use (See Important Fair Use Provisos). However, for editors of Conservapedia, on December 30, 2014, he made a special authorization of 3 times that quantity saying "You are certainly welcome to use up to three quotes of 800 words each, in any of your wiki articles."

Accessing the blog

The blog's primary IP Address is http://64.92.111.122 and a bacckup IP address of http://50.193.232.247[9]

See also


External links

References

  1. ↑ http://survivalblog.com/about
  2. ↑ cite web|url=http://www.survivaltop50.com/%7Ctitle Survival Top 50|accessdate=January 13, 2015}} (The Alexa website itself ranked it globally in 90,906th place as of January 13, 2015.)
  3. ↑ SurvivalBlog Archive DVD 2005-2013. - http://survivalblog.com/archivecd Accessed December 5, 2014.
  4. ↑ "1. (Sociology) social theory that human activity is determined by geographical conditions. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Geographical+determinism Accessed December 5, 2014
  5. ↑ Jared Diamond states "Many human phenomena and characteristics – such as behaviors, beliefs, economies, genes, incomes, life expectancies, and other things – are influenced both by geographic factors and by non-geographic factors. Geographic factors mean physical and biological factors tied to geographic location, including climate, the distributions of wild plant and animal species, soils, and topography." http://jareddiamond.org/Jared_Diamond/Geographic_determinism.html Accessed December 5, 2014
  6. ↑ Tools for Survival - What You Need to Survive When You’re on Your Own. https://www.amazon.com/Tools-Survival-What-Survive-You%C2%92re/dp/0452298121, December 30, 2014, "In his earlier bestselling nonfiction book, How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It, James Wesley Rawles, outlined the foundations for survivalist living. In this book he details the tools needed to survive anything from a short-term disruption to a long-term, grid-down (blackout) scenario. Rawles covers tools for every aspect of self sufficient living, including Food preservation and Cooking, Welding and Blacksmithing, Timber, Firewood, and Lumber, Firefighting, with a strong emphasis on firearms", Accessed December 7, 2014
  7. ↑ 156 word quotation: Fair Use Source: James Wesley, Rawles (“JWR”), Blanket Conservapedia Fair Use Article Citation Authorization "You are certainly welcome to use up to three quotes of 800 words each, in any of your wiki articles." Authorization Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 09:46:09 -0700. Idaho, American Redoubt: The Survival Blog, 2015, Online. Amazon.com, Accessed January 5, 2015 Embarrassing Truths: An Example of Why You Shouldn’t Trust Wikipedia http://survivalblog.com/embarrassing_truths_an_example_of_why_you_shouldnt_trust_wikipedia
  8. ↑ Bender, William. Marcus Hook Mayor arrested, seeking re-election. Philly.com.
  9. ↑ Survival Blog posts its IPv4 address (also referred to as a “dotted quad” or IP address) as a sort of insurance policy since recent events have proven that a government agency or a malicious hacker can fairly easily seize or hijack a domain name.
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