Hosting and Domain Registering?

What is the difference between hosting a webisite and registering the domain?

Hosting and Domain Registering?

website hosting puts a website on the internet using an IP

so you conenct to the IP of the host to view the website.

A domain uses DNS to give your users an easier way to access your site, they just type it into their web browser and it resolves the webhost%26#039;s IP automatically behind your back.

When you type google.com your browser asks for the google hosts IP and then access the website from that IP, so from that perspective you can see how a domain has little significance as of whever a website is %26#039;online%26#039; or not.

Hosting and Domain Registering?

to register you can do it yourself,web-hosting is the publisher which provides you with the space in the internet.

Other Replys:Registering the name just reserves the domain name so no one else can use it. Web hosting is where a company will provide a server and internet connection in order for you to post your website.

Other Replys:This is simple.

Registering the domain is getting a ownership of the name you want to get, ie: yahoo.com, being this the domain. There are many types, being some of them .com, .biz, .us, .org., .com.mx, etc.

Hosting a website is getting a server to hold the information you want to upload unto the domain name you have registered previously. You can have a simple hosting (including data transfer, gb of hard drive, e-mails acounts, etc.), or more elaborate ones including SSL.