[eropple]

> It's easy to buy your own domain name and use it with Google.

Consider historical context. It wasn't easy a decade ago.

[microtonal]

It was. I had domains in ~2000 or so. And even then, many registrars then provided DNS servers, e-mail forwarding, web forwarding, etc.

[eropple]

That's easy for a moderately to highly technical person. The problem tseabrooks identified is exactly that it's not easy for everybody else--especially when that everyone else doesn't have a lens through which to view the potential problem.

[scholia]

Context: It's not so easy for everybody, but it's actually not hard. It's well within the capabilities of the average HN reader...

[eropple]

Fixing the problem for "the average HN reader" doesn't fix the problem.

[scholia]

True, but this was an HN post. It wasn't about everybody.

[tomasz207]

1&1 advertisements from the back of Wired magazine 10 years ago prove otherwise.