> At least own your domain name

Serious question: How? Aside from .onion[0], all TLDs I know of only allow you to rent a domain name, and will take it away if you don't keep paying their protection racket year-on-year. I would be happy to pay >1000$ to purchase a (human-readable, second-level, etc) domain, if I could actually find where to do so.

0: which is less "own" and more "conjure out of the platonic ether something that no one else is capable of using".