Web Hosting Every website that you visit consists of a domain name and a web host. The easiest way to picture it is to think of the domain name as the address and the hosting as the physical building. When you’re browsing the web and you type in a URL (i.e. http://www.lnchub.com), your web browser basically queries that domain name (i.e. lnchub.com) and asks it where the website is hosted. The browser then loads up the contents that are stored there.