Thank you Ipstenu!! You have explained what I have been searching for now for days! Guess I should have known this from the beginning but just needed to double-check! Now, you enjoy #6 and Cheers!
Thanks Ipstenu for responding. I will be parking the domain under my wp ‘main’ domain. So in hoping I understand this correctly, any site created under the multisite platform will need to be registered and paid for thorough Network Solutions or some other registrar before they can be added as a site in the wp multisite?