Domain name reseller

The Internet is an ever-expanding platform that furnishes new possibilities to make cash online. One of these opportunities is to become a domain name reseller and offer domains to end clients, gaining revenue from the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of each domain name. 1000's of domains are registered each day, and there are 1 000 000's of currently active domain names, so this is a developing trading niche that you can be engaged in.

Top-Level and Second-Level Domains Names

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

Generic and Country-Code TLDs

The top-level domain names can be generic or country code. The generic TLDs include the most widespread domain extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the country-code Top-Level Domains consist of 2-letter abbreviations that denote each country. Examples of country-code TLDs are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each Top-Level Domain, whether it is a generic TLD or a country-code Top-Level Domain, has a Registry - an institution that handles the registrations and determines the requirements that each concrete Top-Level Domain may contain, including the length of the registration period or the residency of the registrant. Certain Registrar companies work under the Registry. These are the companies that in fact sell the domain name to customers and handle all domain name records.

Gain Cash From Selling Domains

Plenty of Registrars have reseller programs that enable individuals to gain revenue from offering domain names to end customers. If you register with such a program, you can start your very own personal web business. As a rule, a domain will be more inexpensive if it is registered via a reseller rather than if it is purchased directly from the Registrar by an end customer. The explanation is that resellers can contact more people in regional communities or countries where the Registrar may not be known whatsoever. This implies more sales for the Registrar, so both sides 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 name registration.

Resell Domains On Behalf Of Your Own Brand Name

When you subscribe to a domain reseller program, you will obtain a web hosting CP where you can set the prices for the individual top-level domain names that the Registrar offers. Most companies also offer invoicing software and web skins for your web shop, and the automation of the whole process together with the big demand for domains make the domain name reseller industry so seductive. You will either get a turn-key web site and avail of the Registrar platform to resell domain names, or they will grant you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can create your very own website and order form. Generally, you have the opportunity to decide between the two alternatives, so it all revolves around how skilled you are in these matters. As a domain reseller, you will operate under your own brand name and not under the Registrar's.

Earn Profit From Promoting Web Page Hosting Solutions As Well

An adequate addition to your domain reseller business would be to sell web hosting solutions too. Thus, you can offer a package deal to clients who would like to set up their web site and need both a domain and a webspace hosting package. Given corporations furnish such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for example, you can run a VPS or a dedicated server, and they will also give you a domain name reseller account and cost-free invoice transaction software to charge your customers. You can then sell TLDs and shared website hosting plans to customers, and since they provide many different domain name extensions, you will be able to provide domain and hosting services to people from all over the world.