Domain name reseller

The World Wide Web is an ever-developing platform that supplies new opportunities to make money on the Internet. One of these possibilities is to become a domain name reseller and sell domains to end users, earning profit from the difference between the wholesale and the retail cost of each and every domain name. Thousands of domains are registered every day, and there are 1 000 000's of presently active domains, so this is a thriving business niche that you can be a part of.

Top-Level and Second-Level Domains

A domain name consists of two pieces - a top-level domain name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). If we take domain.com, for example, ".com" is the TLD and "domain" is the SLD.

gTLDs and ccTLDs

The TLDs can be generic or country code. The generic TLDs include the most conventional domain name extensions like .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, whereas the ccTLDs include 2-letter abbreviations that correspond to each country. Examples of country-code Top-Level Domains are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each top-level domain name, whether it is a gTLD or a ccTLD, has a Registry - an institution that administers the registrations and sets the preconditions that each specific Top-Level Domain may include, such as the duration of the registration term or the citizenship of the registrant. A number of Registrar companies work under the Registry. These are the firms that actually sell the domain name to clients and manage all DNS resource records.

Make Money From Offering Domain Names

Many Registrars have reseller programs that enable individuals to gain cash from offering domains to end customers. If you sign up for such a program, you can build your very own electronic business. Regularly, a domain will be cheaper if it is registered through a reseller rather than if it is purchased straight from the Registrar by an end user. The reason is that resellers can contact more customers in regions or states where the Registrar may not be known whatsoever. This implies more sales for the Registrar, so both parties will make a 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.

Trade Domains Under Your Personal Trademark Name

When you sign up for a domain name reseller program, you will receive a website hosting CP where you can set the prices for the specific TLDs that the Registrar offers. Most companies also offer billing software and themes for your web store, and the automation of the entire procedure together with the growing demand for domains make the domain name reseller market niche so alluring. You will either receive a pre-developed web site and use the Registrar system to sell domains, or they will offer you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can build your own personal web portal and form for placing orders. Traditionally, you have the option to pick between the two possibilities, so it all revolves around how trained you are in these issues. As a domain name reseller, you will sell on behalf of your own personal trademark name and not on behalf of the Registrar's brand.

Make Profit From Selling Site Hosting Packages Too

A logical supplement to your domain reseller business would be to sell web hosting accounts as well. In this way, you can offer a package deal to clients who desire to run their site and require both a domain and a web space hosting package. A few corporations have such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for instance, you can purchase a Virtual Dedicated Server or a dedicated server, and they will also offer you a domain name reseller account and free-of-charge billing management software to bill your customers. You can then offer top-level domain names and shared website hosting accounts to clients, and since they offer plenty of different domain name extensions, you will be able to offer domain name and hosting services to clients from all around the world.