If you wish to make a web site, you need two things - your own domain name and a web hosting plan for it. The domain registration is the actual website address that you type in an Internet browser to access a site, while the hosting space is where your site data is going to be. These are two closely connected, yet individual services, even though many people believe that registering the domain name is enough. Similar to the disk space and the monthly traffic features that a given web hosting plan provides, there are a certain number of registered domains which you can add as hosted which means that you can have the web content for them in some account even when the domains have been registered through a different firm. In technical terms, it does not matter whether a domain name is registered and hosted using the same company or is registered with one company and directed to another - in either case your sites will function exactly the same way.