Only makes sense if you plan on using it. For private use for example for email, or a small website, blog, portfolio, linktree, whatever. It’s not expensive, though. Less than $10 a year depending on top-level domain and provider.
Less than $10 a year depending on top-level domain and provider.
There’s also 1.111B class xyz domains which are very cheap number only domains at 1 USD a year or so but are longer and less memorable. Useful for private/test uses, although I wouldn’t use it for anything public.
Whenever you want one! They’re not too expensive, between $12-$19 a year depending where you register it. I have a few I got just cause I thought it was a great name and maybe would do something with it some day.
For example: Iguanayawn.com
Hope it’s not against any rules to “market” or whatever, but I run a web hosting company, Genlack.com. Check it out if you decide to get a website up. We’d love to help you out! It’s just me and my dad, but we have 50 happy clients and you can host your own emails easy peasy.
Like, yesterday? I own my domain since like 20 years ago…
At very least get it for your email, it can be hosted by proton or any other of many mail providers, on your domain.
If you self host, its mandatory, I think, to have one!!!
When you realize you want full control over how your services are labeled.
For a lot of stuff, I just use dynamic DNS. But for email, you really need your own domain, although you can get a service to host it.
But if you want multihoming, DDoS protection, or DNS-layer redirecting or dynamic subdomains of your own, or a guarantee that the domain won’t vanish out from under you, you need your own domain.
I got one recently to host Minecraft and Jellyfin!
