> A domain represents an ongoing maintenance commitment and cost. There's no maintenance if you go with a hosted solution with custom domains like Squarespace,

> A domain represents an ongoing maintenance commitment and cost. There's no maintenance if you go with a hosted solution with custom domains like Squarespace, Wordpress.com and the like. Just as there is for everything digital, from a computer or a phone or internet service. A domain costs a lot less than any of those other prerequisites. I agree DNS UX is absolutely terrible, but web hosting, SSL and redirects aren't trivial things so I understand why it is the way it is.