Do you have to own a website to utilize and own a domain name?

Question

Do you have to own a website to utilize and own a domain name?

Answer 1

No you don't, but it's recommended since people will visit your domain and expect to be able to access a website. You can create a free website with Microsoft Office Live Small Business - http://tinyurl.com/officeliveoffer . It has a free online design tool that lets you create webpages without coding. Currently, MS is giving a free domain name (i.e. yoursite.com) for the first year. Office Live also provides 100 free email addressees as well.

Answer 2

No, I own one trough yahoo small business, it's called

www.suenodivino.com and I have nothing in there, I only own the domain for when I'm ready to pay for a web page developer to do a nice one.

Answer 3

without a website - a domain name is pretty useless

Answer 4

No you can register a domain name separate of course

but check the cheapest Godaddy Economy plan

http://www.hosttell.com/godaddy

It's $4.08/month (if payed for a year $48.96/year)

+ a domain name (like www.something.com)

is $1.99 + $0.20 = $2.19 when you host with them.

So for $51.15 you get a real website hosted for a year, with one of the best companies.