I bought a domain name and paid for it for a year. Now, I’m using that domain name on this one hosting company?

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Question by afterRain: I bought a domain name and paid for it for a year. Now, I’m using that domain name on this one hosting company?
I paid for the domain name for a year and it has only been 6 months

Basically, I used this domain name when I purchased a package from a hosting company, and I can (present tense) access my page by going to
www.mydomainname/myhostingcompany/index.html

But, when I tried looking up mydomainname.com at http://whois.domaintools.com/
It says it cannot find the domain name.

And, goDaddy (I bought the domain from them) also says the domain name is available to be purchased. I’m sure I didn’t mistype the domain name.

How could the domain name be available to be purchased when I have only been using it for 6 months. I don’t think that makes sense. And, if the domain name has indeed been canceled. I should not be able to access www.mydomainname/myhostingcompany/index.html anymore. Isn’t that right? My point is if the domain name has been canceled, why is it that I can still open that page which uses the domain name.

A bit confused here.
Hope someone can help
Thank you very much

Best answer:

Answer by Sharni A
It would help if you could tell us what the domain name & hosting company is……..

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