You don’t buy domain name. Hover does, and does not charge you for that. You only pay like $20/year for your unique “firstname@lastname.org” address.
I got them for my whole family......many whose middle initial, like mine, is A. So the @ is our middle initial:
first name, @ for middle initial, lastname.org
Is that worth $20/year? I think so. And have for 21 years.
Hover sells the “lastname.org” to any/all who want their last name (IF available) .org as their email address.
But I also see that you can just use a Hover domain name itself, no? Like xxxxxx.xxx@hover.xxx?? No.