The cost of registering a new domain name these days can cost you as much as $8.95 - $15 a year depending upon the registrar. If you are on a really really tight budget and what to eliminate this cost from your total project cost, going with a web hosting company that offers a free domain name as a bonus with its web hosting package can be a great idea. However, as with a usual web hosting purchase, you need to take plenty of precautions before arriving at any conclusion as to which web hosting company offering a free domain would be the right choice for your particular business website.

There is generally a perception that companies offering free domain names as part of their hosting plans are inferior to those that do not. The argument given for holding this position is that offering a service like domain name registration that is charged elsewhere reduces the profit margin of the company, which leads to lesser and lesser investment in buying quality equipment and hiring knowledgable staff. However this does hold true with every single company as our experience tells us, since it depends on how prudently the company designs its business strategy. Consequently, we at AWHD are quite confident that the free domain name web hosting companies listed here are by no means inferior to those that do not offer this feature.

Having said that, as mentioned previously, you need to carefully weigh your options and ensure that the web hosting company in question offers the correct tools that you are seeking for your website. For example, all the scripts needed in your site should be offered by the company. If you need a particular content management system such as WordPress, look specifically for this feature in the credentials of the hosting company. So the bottom line is, you need to ensure that the web host meets all your requirements in the first place. And then if it offers a free domain name, that would definitely be a bonus on top of that and you can go ahead with signing up with that web hosting company.