Web hosting as anyone who is familiar with it knows very well is a complex ball game and selecting one is even a bigger one, with so many companies now offering web hosting, so many plans, packages few companies came up with the idea to offer free domains alongside with the hosting but generally, a person than has to stay with them a specific period of time regardless of the any issues.

This is nothing more than an incentive namely, offering a free domain name of your choice if you host your website from that particular company who is offering it. There are many factors one should ascertain before making a decision to take the services of a particular company because you might end up taking a web hosting service provider on the fact they are offering you a free domain name alongside but it might prove to be a highly incorrect one.

Web hosting is a complicated process itself, it is not as easy as just putting up a good system and start web hosting, one has to create a proper infrastructure with dedicated high end servers, technicians and maintenance not to mention the normal operation protocols which are not easy to maintain and afford either. Some companies are offering a free domain as an incentive to host your website from them but if you were to look at it, registering a domain is not an expensive affair and you can do it yourself directly from the Internet. Good web hosting companies initially provided domain registration alongside web hosting for their clients and because of the intense competition, some started offering registering domains for free but it is not recommend that you select a web hosting company solely on the basis of it offering you a free domain registration alongside.

Your website will be your face for your clients and if you are planning to host a commercial website with personal and financial transactions than you should not take a web hosting company solely on this free domain basis under any circumstance. If the web hosting company does not have good servers or has problems (which you will not know about until latter) your website will either open very slow or will not open at all which could lead to possible embarrassment and at the same time if you put yourself in your customers shoes, would you trust a company whose website sometimes does not open or opens very slow or is rigged with problems?

There are also many good web hosting companies out there who are offering this facility of free domain hosting alongside as an incentive and in no way does it mean that a company which is offering such a facility is invalid or a scam. It could be a promotion they are offering with good value for money but base your decision on what you require from your web hosting service provider and meeting the technical requirements rather than basing the decision on free stuff.