Domain reseller

The Internet is an ever-expanding system that delivers new options to gain money online. One of these ways is to become a domain reseller and sell domains to end customers, making revenue from the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of each and every domain name. 1000's of domains are registered each day, and there are millions of presently active domains, so this is an expanding marketing niche that you can be involved in.

TLDs and SLDs

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

Generic and Country-Code Top-Level Domains

The TLDs can be generic or country code. The generic top-level domain names include the most conventional domain name extensions like .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the country-code Top-Level Domains are made of 2-character 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 generic TLD or a ccTLD, has a Registry - an institution that is responsible for the registrations and determines the requirements that each given Top-Level Domain may impose, among them the length of the registration period or the citizenship of the registrant. Certain Registrar firms operate under the Registry. These are the firms that in fact sell the domain name to clients and administer all DNS records.

Earn Profit From Selling Domain Names

Many Registrars have reseller programs that enable people to gain money from selling domain names to end customers. If you subscribe to such a program, you can begin your own personal web business. Commonly, a domain name will be cheaper if it is registered through a reseller rather than if it is purchased straight from the Registrar by an end client. The cause is that resellers can contact more users in areas or countries where the Registrar may not be popular whatsoever. This means more sales for the Registrar, so both parties will benefit from that. Your revenue will be the difference between the price that the user pays and the one that the Registrar levies for the domain registration.

Trade Domains On Behalf Of Your Very Own Brand Name

When you subscribe to a domain reseller program, you will receive a web space hosting Control Panel where you can choose the prices for the different top-level domain names that the Registrar provides. Most corporations also provide billing software and site skins for your online shop, and the automation of the entire process coupled with the growing demand for domains make the domain reseller market so alluring. You will either acquire a ready-to-use site and use the Registrar system to resell domains, or they will grant you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can build your own personal site and form for placing orders. Generally, you have the option to pick between the 2 alternatives, so it all revolves around how accomplished you are in these matters. As a domain name reseller, you will sell under your own personal trademark name and not under the Registrar's brand.

Make Profit From Selling Web Hosting Services As Well

A good addition to your domain reseller business would be to sell web hosting services too. Thereby, you can give a package deal to people who wish to launch their web portal and need both a domain name and a webspace hosting package. Given companies offer such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for instance, you can manage a Virtual Server or a dedicated server, and they will also give you a domain name reseller account and free-of-cost billing management software to bill your customers. You can then offer TLDs and shared website hosting plans to clients, and since they offer a lot of diverse domain extensions, you will be able to offer domain name and hosting services to customers from all around the world.