Does Unity really require access to Google Analytics to run?

Running Unity.exe, I get this error message dialog, and the application closes after I dismiss the popup:
Error loading page / Couldn’t resolve hostname.

In the log I see this:
LICENSE SYSTEM [20141119 20:36:40] Error: Couldn’t resolve host name for https://ssl.google-analytics.com/ga.js

I don’t have the option to unblock google-analytics.com (or any advertizing domains) here. Does that mean our dev team won’t be able to use, or even evaluate Unity?

Activate manually if the automatic activation fails. The Unity EULA does say that you consent to data collection.

Per the other thread referenced in the comment on my post, it is not possible to manually activate without access to Google Analytics.

I’m not sure we can get around the firewalls. Even if that’s possible we’d be violating company policy and could get into trouble.

I guess we’ll have to go with something else.