Domain name reseller

The World Wide Web is an ever-increasing community that generates new options to earn cash on the Web. One of them is to be a domain name reseller and sell domains to end users, making profit from the difference between the wholesale and the retail cost of each and every domain name. Thousands of domains are registered each day, and there are 1 000 000's of currently functioning domain names, so this is a flourishing business niche that you can be a part of.

Top-Level and Second-Level Domains Names

A domain name involves 2 constituents - a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). If we take domain.com, for example, ".com" is the TLD and "domain" is the second-level domain name.

Generic and Country-Code Top-Level Domains

The TLDs can be generic or country code. The generic top-level domain names include the best known domain extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the ccTLDs involve two-character abbreviations that represent each country. Examples of country-code Top-Level Domains are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each Top-Level Domain, whether it is a gTLD or a ccTLD, has a Registry - an institution that is responsible for the registrations and sets the requirements that each concrete top-level domain name may include, among them the duration of the registration term or the citizenship of the registrant. Certain Registrar firms work under the Registry. These are the corporations that actually sell the domain name to clients and handle all domain resource records.

Gain Revenue From Selling Domain Names

Many Registrars have reseller programs that enable individuals to gain cash from offering domain names to end users. If you sign up for such a program, you can kick off your own personal e-business. Regularly, a domain will cost less if it is registered through a reseller rather than if it is purchased straight from the Registrar by an end customer. The cause is that resellers can contact more customers in regional communities or countries where the Registrar may not be popular whatsoever. This means more sales for the Registrar, so both parties will take advantage of that. Your profit will be the difference between the price that the customer pays and the one that the Registrar imposes for the domain registration.

Resell Top-Level Domains Under Your Personal Brand

When you subscribe to a domain reseller program, you will get a webspace hosting CP where you can determine the prices for the various top-level domain names that the Registrar offers. Most corporations also provide invoice management software and site layouts for your virtual store, and the automation of the whole process together with the increasing demand for domains make the domain name reseller business so attractive. You will either get a ready-for-use website and use the Registrar system to resell domains, or they will give you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can build your own personal online portal and form for placing orders. Typically, you have the opportunity to choose between the 2 options, so it all revolves around how expert you are in these issues. As a domain name reseller, you will operate under your own personal trademark name and not under the Registrar's.

Gain Cash From Providing Website Hosting Accounts As Well

A logical supplement to your domain name reseller business would be to sell web hosting plans too. Thus, you can give a package deal to customers who want to develop their website and require both a domain and a web space hosting package. Certain companies offer such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for example, you can buy a Virtual Dedicated Server or a dedicated server, and they will also give you a domain name reseller account and free-of-charge billing transaction software to bill your customers. You can then offer domains and shared website hosting plans to clients, and since they provide plenty of different domain name extensions, you will be able to provide domain name and hosting services to clients from all over the world.