No matter what the other benefits, having your own domain name is awesome. Assume your name is Mary Jones. When you purchase the domain name “MaryJones.com”, everybody in the world is going to know how to find you online. It gives you a distinction, almost a kind of power, expert status thing.
No matter what your name is, there are probably hundreds, if not thousands, of other people who share the same name. Yet no other Mary Jones on Earth is going to own that domain name. It’s like...