Domain name reseller

The World Wide Web is an ever-enlarging community that offers new opportunities to make money on the Web. One of these ways is to become a domain reseller and offer domains to end clients, gaining profit from the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of each and every domain name. 1000's of domain names are registered each and every day, and there are millions of currently functioning domains, so this is an increasing business niche that you can become involved in.

Top-Level and Second-Level Domains

A domain name contains 2 pieces - a top-level domain name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). If we take domain.com, for instance, ".com" is the top-level domain name and "domain" is the second-level domain name.

gTLDs and ccTLDs

The top-level domain names can be generic or country code. The gTLDs comprise the best known domain extensions like .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the ccTLDs consist of 2-character abbreviations that denote each country. Instances of country-code top-level domain names are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each top-level domain name, whether it is a generic or a country-code Top-Level Domain, has a Registry - an institution that tackles the registrations and determines the preconditions that each particular TLD may involve, like the length of the registration period or the residency of the registrant. A number of Registrar firms operate under the Registry. These are the corporations that in fact offer the domain name to customers and manage all domain resource records.

Earn Cash From Selling Domain Names

Many Registrars have reseller programs that allow people to make revenue from selling domains to end users. If you subscribe to such a program, you can commence your very own online business. Usually, a domain will cost less if it is registered through a reseller rather than if it is obtained straight from the Registrar by an end user. The explanation is that resellers can contact more persons in regions or states where the Registrar may not be popular whatsoever. This means more sales for the Registrar, so both sides will profit from that. Your revenue will be the difference between the price that the user pays and the one that the Registrar charges for the domain registration.

Resell Domain Names Under Your Own Personal Brand

When you sign up for a domain reseller program, you will have a web hosting CP where you can fix the prices for the various TLDs that the Registrar offers. Most companies also provide invoicing transaction software and design templates for your web store, and the automation of the whole process combined with the enlarging demand for domain names render the domain reseller market so seductive. You will either receive a ready-made site and make use of the Registrar platform to resell domains, or they will offer you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can set up your own web page and form for placing orders. Commonly, you have the option to select between the two possibilities, so it all depends on how practiced you are in these things. As a domain name reseller, you will operate under your personal brand name and not under the Registrar's.

Gain Revenue From Supplying Web Site Hosting Solutions As Well

A proper addition to your domain reseller business would be to sell web hosting services too. Thereby, you can offer a package deal to persons who want to develop their site and demand both a domain name and a site hosting package. A few firms offer such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for instance, you can run a Virtual Dedicated Server or a dedicated server, and they will also give you a domain name reseller account and free-of-charge billing management software to bill your customers. You can then sell Top-Level Domains and shared web hosting plans to clients, and since they offer plenty of different domain name extensions, you will be able to provide domain name and hosting services to persons from all over the globe.