best domain hosting & registration company?

[J]

there has been so many buyouts over the past couple years, you really need to do your homework.

registration = go with whomever will do it cheap, then after 60 days (ICANN policy) move it to name.com--btw...while the registration is moving your site will not stop working

hosting = many previously good hosts are now horrible because of buyouts and OVER SELLING their servers.to maximize profits - just left one mentioned by others (fast domain / bluehost)

godaddy servers are not setup standard and many things don't work right there. check the wp support forums to verify http://wordpress.org

how you can tell a host is overselling by reading their ToS and policy statements-- look for terms like cpu throttling, inode limits - which are sure giveaways

a good hosting company only limits your site if you have some script like a "cron job" or poorly coded plugin that has run away, then they will most likely disable them so that others you share the server with don't suffer

take a look at whom i suggest now for hosting:

http://bypasshost.com