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The Host, The Site, the Domain - THE DIFFERENCE
These three things all must work together in order to have a functioning website but most people don't know the difference and why you need all three.
We host dozens of websites for real estate agents and other businesses and usually charge annually for that service. March is the month we bill out and inevitably I get people calling saying, "what is this bill for? What am I paying for?" etc.. Literally it's the same people that called last year with the same question, regardless of how many times I've explained it. 
But I explain it like this in hopes that it will make it clear. 
If you want to have a website you need to first buy the domain. That's the www.whatever.com and most people buy this through godaddy.com or other similar domain registering sites. You have to purchase this through a domain register but make sure YOU are the owner. Don't go with a company that will do it all for you including buying and registering the domain. The domain is personal property and you should be the only one that owns that domain. Most of the time you can renew that domain each year, set it to auto-renew or buy it for an extended ... more

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