Hosting companies these days are more than just hosting companies. Pretty much all of the major hosting firms out there now offer their own dedicated domain name registration services and some even go as far as offering full e-commerce solutions or at least custom shopping cart software for their clients. Web hosting firms have certainly come along way over the past few years.

The same goes for domain name registrars. Most of the big players now give the user the option to take up domain name hosting on confirmation / checkout of their domain name purchase. This can save a lot of time as no longer do you need to find yourself a separate web host, you can get everything up and running there and then with very little effort.

Hosting firms now make it even easier for their customers to get up and running with their vast arrays of free, bundled software with their packages from blog apps to the Ecommerce shopping cart - you can pretty much get all that you need from one company without even needing a third party designer or developer to get you up and running as you once would have in the past.