I absolutely agree. I got my domain long before I got the hosting. once I was ready my hosting worked closely with my domain name provider and got all things arranged. Since then, my hosting company is absolutely wonderful. It is almost as if they fingured out I was new and have helped every step of the way.
I know that is why I selected them was reputation on the web. There are to many fly by night hosting and domain name companies around. You do have to be careful.