In order to make a web site, you need 2 things - your own domain and a website hosting plan for it. The domain registration is the actual website address which you enter in a web browser to access a website, while the hosting space is where your website data will be. These are 2 closely connected, yet individual services, even though many people assume that registering the domain is enough. Much like the disk space and the monthly traffic features which a given hosting plan provides, there are a certain number of registered domains which you can include as hosted which means that you can have the web content for them in some account even if the domains are actually registered via 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 one - in any case your sites will function the very same way.