Registering a domain name and hosting one is sometimes mistaken by many people to be the same thing. They're in reality 2 separate services - the domain address registration is the actual name and nothing more, while the hosted domains feature refers to the number of already registered domain addresses you can accommodate within the same hosting account and have site data and email messages for them. Your websites will function in precisely the same way no matter whether the domain addresses are registered and hosted in one place or are registered with company A and pointed to company B. Simply registering a domain without hosting it will grant you ownership, but will not allow you to have a website until you host this domain in some account so that records for it are set up and it starts opening the information from that account.
