Domain name reseller

The World Wide Web is an ever-expanding community that furnishes new ways to make money on the Internet. One of them is to become a domain name reseller and sell domain names to end clients, generating profit from the difference between the wholesale and the retail cost of each domain name. Thousands of domains are registered each and every day, and there are 1 000 000's of currently functioning domain names, so this is an enlarging business niche that you can become engaged in.

Top-Level and Second-Level Domains Names

A domain contains two components - a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). If we take domain.com, for example, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain and "domain" is the Second-Level Domain.

gTLDs and ccTLDs

The top-level domain names 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 ccTLDs include 2-letter abbreviations that represent each country. Instances of country-code top-level domain names are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each top-level domain name, whether it is a generic top-level domain name or a country-code one, has a Registry - an organization that is responsible for the registrations and sets the requirements that each given Top-Level Domain may have, among them the length of the registration period or the residency of the registrant. Certain Registrar firms operate under the Registry. These are the firms that actually offer the domain name to clients and manage all domain name records.

Gain Cash From Selling Domain Names

Lots of Registrars have reseller programs that allow people to gain profit from selling domain names to end users. If you subscribe to such a program, you can set up your own e-business. Generally, a domain will cost less if it is registered through a reseller rather than if it is bought directly from the Registrar by an end user. The reason is that resellers can contact more people in areas or countries where the Registrar may not be popular at all. This implies more sales for the Registrar, so both parties will take advantage of that. Your revenue will be the difference between the price that the client pays and the one that the Registrar levies for the domain registration.

Resell Domain Names On Behalf Of Your Very Own Personal Brand

When you subscribe to a domain reseller program, you will have a website hosting CP where you can fix the prices for the specific Top-Level Domains that the Registrar provides. Most corporations also offer invoicing transaction software and site skins for your online storefront, and the automation of the whole process combined with the increasing demand for domains make the domain name reseller business niche so seductive. You will either receive a ready-made web site and utilize the Registrar platform to sell domains, or they will offer you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can make your own personal web portal and form for placing orders. Traditionally, you have the option to choose between the two alternatives, so it all revolves around how skillful you are in these issues. As a domain name reseller, you will work under your own brand and not on behalf of the Registrar's.

Earn Money From Reselling Web Site Hosting Accounts Too

A reasonable addition to your domain reseller business would be to sell web hosting packages as well. Thus, you can give a package deal to users who desire to set up their site and need both a domain name and a webspace hosting account. Some firms supply such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for instance, you can order a Virtual Private Server or a dedicated server, and they will also give you a domain name reseller account and free-of-charge invoicing software to charge your clients. You can then sell Top-Level Domains and shared web hosting accounts to customers, and since they offer a lot of different domain name extensions, you will be able to offer domain and hosting services to people from all over the world.