[ocdtrekkie]

Domain renewal is definitely the lesser cost to maintaining a website. If you can afford the server, the domain is basically free already.

[cyberbanjo]

Why is that? I can point a domain at free hosting. GitHub Pages and SDF.org come to mind.

[account42]

For most websites maybe, but you can change host to cut costs if needed. Not so with domains if you want to keep the URLs working.

[mapgrep]

Blogger and Tumblr will map a domain to a blog for free.

[dwighttk]

And that will definitely not change in 100 years

[mapgrep]

Blogger has been serving urls for something like 17 years. I’d wager its sites have something like 2x or more average url lifespan at this point than the typical site. What we want right now is more url stability not perfect assurance of 100 year url lifespan. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.