Domain name reseller

The Internet is an ever-flourishing community that furnishes new possibilities to gain money on the Internet. One of these possibilities is to be a domain name reseller and sell domains to end users, gaining profit from the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of each domain name. Thousands of domains are registered each and every day, and there are 1 000 000's of presently functioning domains, so this is a developing trading niche that you can be involved in.

TLDs and SLDs

A domain is composed of two pieces - a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). If we pick domain.com, for example, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain and "domain" is the second-level domain name.

gTLDs and ccTLDs

The Top-Level Domains can be generic or country code. The gTLDs comprise the best known domain name extensions like .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the country-code top-level domain names are made of 2-letter abbreviations that represent each country. Instances of ccTLDs are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each TLD, whether it is a generic top-level domain name or a country-code one, has a Registry - an organization that tackles the registrations and sets the prerequisites that each specific Top-Level Domain may impose, including the length of the registration period or the citizenship of the registrant. A number of Registrar corporations operate under the Registry. These are the corporations that actually sell the domain name to clients and manage all domain name resource records.

Earn Profit From Selling Domain Names

Numerous Registrars have reseller programs that enable people to make money from selling domain names to end clients. If you register with such a program, you can launch your own web business. As a rule, a domain will cost less if it is registered through a reseller rather than if it is bought straight from the Registrar by an end client. The reason is that resellers can reach more customers in regions or countries where the Registrar may not be famous whatsoever. This means more sales for the Registrar, so both sides will take advantage of that. Your profit will be the difference between the price that the user pays and the one that the Registrar levies for the domain registration.

Sell Top-Level Domain Names Under Your Own Brand

When you register with a domain reseller program, you will obtain a webspace hosting Control Panel where you can select the prices for the specific Top-Level Domains that the Registrar provides. Most corporations also provide invoice transaction software and web page skins for your web store, and the automation of the entire process together with the rising demand for domains render the domain name reseller business so seductive. You will either receive a ready-to-use web site and use the Registrar system to resell domains, or they will offer you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can build your very own web portal and form for placing orders. Typically, you have the option to choose between the two possibilities, so it all depends on how practiced you are in these affairs. As a domain name reseller, you will operate under your very own personal brand name and not on behalf of the Registrar's.

Earn Money From Supplying Web Page Hosting Accounts Too

A nice addition to your domain reseller business would be to sell web hosting plans too. Thereby, you can offer a package deal to clients who would like to develop their website and demand both a domain and a webspace hosting plan. Given companies supply 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 cost-free invoicing transaction software to bill your customers. You can then sell domain names and shared hosting packages to customers, and since they provide many diverse domain extensions, you will be able to provide domain and hosting services to people from all over the world.