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In spite of the fact that I already own and have paid for the domain with Namecheap?

• user5994461 10y ago
  Yes. You want to use your own domain and brand, you pay for it.
• Tomte 10y ago
  You're not paying the 75 dollars for the domain, you're paying it for Medium allowing you to use it. What's surprising you there? It's just another type of user segmentation.
• ballenf 10y ago
  Think of it as a one-time license fee to white label the Medium tech. Pretty cheap, imo. Surprised they didn't make it a recurring fee, tbh. Out of curiosity, what benefit do you see getting from having the content be on your own domain vs. Medium itself? It's probably just me being quirky, but when I'm reading a Medium article on someone's custom domain, I get slightly annoyed that it's a little harder to get back to Medium itself to get to the rest of my reading list. If you decide against paying the fee, I doubt I'm alone in saying that I don't judge the content itself on whether it's on medium.com vs. randomtechguymusings.*. Publish good, thoughtful, valuable content and your work will speak for itself regardless of domain name.
  • user5994461 10y ago
    It's fun you'd say that because there are quite a few discussion on HN saying they don't read medium.com domains anymore. The articles are too low quality.