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Lot of first time website owners and bloggers make a big mistake of using a single service provider providing both the web hosting and as a domain name registrar. Even though this has advantages, this could cause problems later.

The web hosting and domain name registration are two different services and it is always recommended to keep them seperate for your own safety. The hosting provider hosts your websites and is responsible for keeping your website up and running 24*7. One of the very successful hosting providers is Hostmonster, which I use also as it has many advantages over other hosting providers. You can read more about it here.

A Domain registrar is where you register your domain for your website. The primary advantage of having seperate service providers is nobody has control of your website except you. For example, if you are not satisfied with your hosting provider then it would be not easy to transfer from one hosting provider to another if your domain registrar is also the same.

Your domain is your property without which there is no online business. Some hosting providers does not support you in transfering your domain from them and can cause delays which can hurt your business as the site will be down on the present one until you transfer to another one.

The best and most popular domain registrar is Godaddy.com. I use the same one as my domain registrar. There are many domain registrars available but Godaddy.com is the most reliable and most popular as it provides good customer service, good and easy user interface and less cost.