Is Host Gator just a hosting service or does it provide domain names also?

Hi, i justwant to know how the companies that provide Domain names ect, how they get the domain to start with and if there was a way for me to host myself a .com , .co.uk ect domain name without having to pay? …
Thanks

I need a short and nice email domain name,do you guys have any good idea? only letters,no numbers,no signs,thanks

list the best brains in domain names configuration?

What ones?

What ones?

mid-east.net
mid-east.biz

I am thinking of selling them and want to know how much I could get for them from your opinion. Thanks

Say I want to call my new commercial site Hello! (with the exclamation point). I know I can’t register hello!.com but hello.com is already taken. Can I register it as something like helloall.com but use Hello! on the home page or will I still be infringing on someone else’s domain? Thanks.