Domain reseller

The Internet is an ever-flourishing community that offers new opportunities to gain money online. One of these possibilities is to become a domain name reseller and offer domains to end users, gaining revenue from the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of each domain name. 1000's of domain names are registered each day, and there are 1 000 000's of presently functioning domains, so this is a blooming trading niche that you can be engaged in.

TLDs and SLDs

A domain involves 2 parts - a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). If we pick domain.com, for example, ".com" is the top-level domain name and "domain" is the SLD.

Generic and Country-Code Top-Level Domain Names

The Top-Level Domains can be generic or country code. The generic Top-Level Domains comprise the most conventional domain name extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, whereas the country-code Top-Level Domains involve two-letter abbreviations that correspond to each country. Examples of country-code top-level domain names are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each TLD, whether it is a generic TLD or a ccTLD, has a Registry - an institution that deals with the registrations and sets the prerequisites that each specific TLD may impose, among them the duration of the registration period or the citizenship of the registrant. A number of Registrar firms operate under the Registry. These are the firms that in fact offer the domain name to clients and manage all domain records.

Earn Cash From Trading Domain Names

Many Registrars have reseller programs that allow individuals to make money from selling domain names to end users. If you sign up for such a program, you can build your very own personal online business. As a rule, a domain name will be more inexpensive if it is registered through a reseller rather than if it is purchased straight from the Registrar by an end client. The explanation is that resellers can contact more clients in regions or countries where the Registrar may not be popular 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 charges for the domain name registration.

Offer TLDs Under Your Very Own Trademark Name

When you sign up for a domain reseller program, you will obtain a web hosting CP where you can set the prices for the individual TLDs that the Registrar provides. Most corporations also offer invoicing transaction software and web themes for your virtual shop, and the automation of the entire procedure together with the considerable demand for domain names render the domain reseller market so desirable. You will either have a pre-developed web site and use the Registrar system to sell domain names, or they will grant you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can make your own web site and order form. Usually, you have the option to decide between the 2 possibilities, so it all depends on how trained you are in these matters. As a domain name reseller, you will sell under your own brand name and not under the Registrar's brand.

Gain Revenue From Providing Web Space Hosting Accounts Too

A reasonable addition to your domain reseller business would be to sell web hosting accounts too. Thereby, you can offer a package deal to clients who would like to run their web page and need both a domain and a webspace hosting account. A number of firms provide such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for instance, you can manage a Virtual Server or a dedicated server, and they will also offer you a domain name reseller account and cost-free invoicing transaction software to charge your clients. You can then offer top-level domain names and shared web hosting accounts to clients, and since they offer plenty of diverse domain name extensions, you will be able to offer domain name and hosting services to users from all around the globe.