Curse of knowledge bias exemplar
I think the DNS threat is overblown.
As someone who specializes in this field, I disagree. You must build to the lowest common denominator in respect to your userbase, ESPECIALLY when under active attack. Make no mistake, if a platform gains any notoriety with the 1984/Fahrenheit 451 cult, it will be attacked from all angles.
You can also change DNS server to one that doesn't censor.
Can you imagine saying this to the average suzy creamcheese user out on the internet? It's not a very realistic expectation over simply having them type .crypto, and having a browser resolve to the blockchain seamlessly.
What about when your VPS provider joins in the fun and cancels your account (IP) as well. If you had control over the domain, at least you could swing it over to another IP, or even do it seamlessly with a technology like GSLB and perhaps clever use of site-to-site tunnels.
Maybe you can use the old way - to write IP into your .hosts file ...