Registering a domain name and hosting one is frequently mistaken by many people to be the same thing. These are in reality two separate services - the domain registration is the actual name and nothing more, while the hosted domains feature reveals the number of already registered domains that you can accommodate within the same web hosting account and have website data and email messages for them. Your websites will function in precisely the same way regardless of whether the domain names are registered and hosted at the same place or are registered with company A and directed to company B. Simply registering a domain address without hosting it will grant you ownership, but will not enable you to have a web site if you don't host this domain address in some account so that records for it are set up and it starts opening the information from that account.