{"id":1912,"date":"2020-07-26T19:02:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T02:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2020-07-26T19:02:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T02:02:24","slug":"is-it-worth-paying-for-a-domain-name-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/1912\/is-it-worth-paying-for-a-domain-name-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it worth paying for a domain name in 2020?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yes, if you want to create a website, it is good to get a domain name. The other alternative you have is to use a hosted website builder that allows you to choose a username and then puts your website on a subfolder or subdomain of their own website\/server. Paying the yearly fee for your own domain name and web hosting (can be monthly payments), gets you flexibility and choice of website builder, and access to your website files\/content, plus pretty urls &#8211; great for SEO (search engine optimization) and working on getting traffic to your website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Got a techy\/website question? Whether it\u2019s about UltimateWB or another website builder, web hosting, or other aspects of websites, just send in your question in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/ask-david\">\u201cAsk David!\u201d form<\/a>. We will email you when the answer is posted on the UltimateWB \u201cAsk David!\u201d section.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, if you want to create a website, it is good to get a domain name. The other alternative you have is to use a hosted website builder that allows you to choose a username and then puts your website &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/1912\/is-it-worth-paying-for-a-domain-name-in-2020\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1034],"tags":[235,1202,1201,18],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-david","tag-domain-name","tag-domain-name-fee","tag-pay-for-domain-name","tag-web-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1913,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}