View Single Post - Domain name registration & Web hosting (what's the difference?)

extendcradle · 07-12-2005, 07:56 AM

Domain names are unique addresses (e.g. www.computerforum.com and there is no other same as this domain name). If you are thinking of a domain name for yourself (e.g. www.chem3.com) then you have to register and pay for it because if someone is also thinking of that domain name and he comes first to register for it then you might wait for a couple of years for that domain to become available again.

Web hosting is the real product of a web hosting company.From there, you are using their service by providing you some spaces from their servers. Sometimes,web hosts don't provide all the top-level-domain(the rightmost in the domain name... e.g. www.computerforum.com---- top-level is the .com). Sample of this is some .gov top-level-domain.

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extendcradle Bronze Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 36	Domain names are unique addresses (e.g. www.computerforum.com and there is no other same as this domain name). If you are thinking of a domain name for yourself (e.g. www.chem3.com) then you have to register and pay for it because if someone is also thinking of that domain name and he comes first to register for it then you might wait for a couple of years for that domain to become available again. Web hosting is the real product of a web hosting company.From there, you are using their service by providing you some spaces from their servers. Sometimes,web hosts don't provide all the top-level-domain(the rightmost in the domain name... e.g. www.computerforum.com---- top-level is the .com). Sample of this is some .gov top-level-domain.