Medium now charges $75 for custom domain

Can confirm I opted out of the custom domain today when emailed back with the $75 charge. The cost isn't bad but it rubbed me the wrong way doing the form two months ago and heard nothing back until today. 15 emails/tweets unanswered. Completely understand charging but was turned off by the lack of response/acknowledgement.

Such a shame that a high cost is charged for custom domain handling. Such a huge price increase. Originally for free. Yes that wasn&#x27;t sustainable. But $75?? You can buy a domain for $5pa Free SSL using LetsEncrypt.<p>I get Medium are looking for a revenue model, but this is ridiculous.<p>Why not provide enterprise blogging or something they can charge enterprise for. Take on the Wordpress kingdom and get into big business.

I can really understand medium.com needs for a decent revenue model.<p>But a 75$ one time fee for a domain seems really a desperate measure to cash in.<p>I&#x27;d be willing to pay, say 5$&#x2F;month for premium service, including a custom domain, but a 75$ one time fee only for that is not justified to me.