[Samurai_Jack]

Also, freerepublic is self hosting and thus is not ‘cancellable’

[for-q-clinton]

Actually very good point (sort of) but they can cancel their DNS name and other things to make it very hard to stay up if they wanted to.

[powerset]

“Also, freerepublic is self hosting and thus is not ‘cancellable’”

Self hosting? If so, it’s on a “Virtual Private Server”.

$ dig freerepublic.com
freerepublic.com. 53497 IN A 45.79.56.181

https://iplocation.com/?ip=45.79.56.181
IP address 45.79.56.181
Latitude 32.948284
Longitude -96.729813
Country United States of America
Region Texas
City Richardson
Organization Linode LLC

Linode is (now) a subsidiary of Akamai Technologies (Cambridge MA)