Who runs the Internet? Is it Google, the global search leader that trades fantastic free services for borderline frightening insights into user behavior? Is it Apple, whose iPhones and iPads are reportedly used to connect people to the Internet more than any other mobile devices on the planet by a massive margin? Is it the Illuminati? According to a new feature from the team that taught us how to disappear online, there are actually six organizations that secretly run the Internet and you might not have considered any of them.
A new piece from the team at WhoIsHostingThis.com digs intoanother area of the Internet that most users don’t think about. According to the firm, there are six organizations that have a tremendous amount of power over the Internet and Google, often considered the king of all things Web, is not among them....
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