I have no plans to ever seize control of the irc via the domain
But on that, The entire intent for registering the anotherpower.com domain was to allow as stable as possible domain for the irc and it's gallery to live, do what you wish.
However the reason for the suggestion of CNAME leaves ultimate control still with Danf if ever I, or anyone else capable of manipulating the anotherpower.com domain went insane or something. Some sort of balance of powers I suppose. As I pointed out also this setup then allows for much faster easier changes to be made using irc.anotherpower.com as its pointer.
It's up to you, Danf, irc users, or whomever, I'm just offering up the possibility.
Wolv
ps I agree, contacting DanF is hard. I hope Kurt has better luck than I.