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Technically speaking, a Domain Name can be registered and managed, but only a website can be hosted. In order to explain why domain web hosting is a slightly incorrect concept we would use a metaphor.
The Domain Name is the address where your website can be found once it is built and uploaded on the webservers of you hosting service provider. Imagine the Global Network as a wheel with thirteen spokes – this is the number of the so-called gTLD or Global Top-Level Domains. They include .com, .net, .biz, .edu, etc. Consider for a second that each of the spokes is like a street with end lost somewhere far in the unimaginable distance.
Now, for a web-browser it would be rather impossible to locate a site on the .COM Boulevard without knowing the address. Even if you had the best hosting plan in the world it would be quite useless if the site remains uncharted on the map of the World Web. That is why it is important to acquire an address on the .COM Blvd by registering a domain name, e.g. “mydomainname.COM”.
By doing so you “buy” (rather rent for a long period of time) “property” on the .COM Blvd. This “property” means little by itself, though. To continue the street analogy, the Domain Name would stand like a moan with no buildings, hence no functionality, unless a web-site is associated with it. Here is where the web-hosting comes – it fills the registered address with meaning like a house gives significance to its address.