Domain name reseller

The World Wide Web is an ever-developing system that furnishes new opportunities to make money on the Internet. One of these possibilities is to be a domain name reseller and sell domain names to end clients, earning profit from the difference between the wholesale and the retail cost of each domain name. 1000's of domains are registered every day, and there are millions of presently functioning domain names, so this is a blossoming business niche that you can be a part of.

Top-Level and Second-Level Domains Names

A domain is composed of 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 name and "domain" is the SLD.

gTLDs and ccTLDs

The Top-Level Domains can be generic or country code. The gTLDs comprise the most widely used domain extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, whereas the ccTLDs comprise two-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 top-level domain name or a country-code one, has a Registry - an organization that handles the registrations and sets the requirements that each concrete Top-Level Domain may entail, such as the duration of the registration term or the residency of the registrant. A number of Registrar firms work under the Registry. These are the firms that actually sell the domain name to clients and handle all domain resource records.

Earn Revenue From Offering Domains

Plenty of Registrars have reseller programs that allow individuals to make revenue from selling domain names to end customers. If you sign up for such a program, you can kickstart your own personal web business. As a rule, a domain will be cheaper if it is registered through a reseller rather than if it is purchased straight from the Registrar by an end customer. The cause is that resellers can contact more users in areas or states where the Registrar may not be popular whatsoever. This implies more sales for the Registrar, so both parties will make a profit from that. Your revenue will be the difference between the price that the customer pays and the one that the Registrar requires for the domain name registration.

Resell Top-Level Domain Names On Behalf Of Your Very Own Trademark Name

When you subscribe to a domain name reseller program, you will obtain a web hosting CP where you can determine the prices for the different TLDs that the Registrar offers. Most firms also offer invoicing transaction software and web site themes for your web shop, and the automation of the whole procedure combined with the huge demand for domains render the domain name reseller industry so seductive. You will either get a ready-for-use web site and avail of the Registrar platform to sell domain names, or they will grant you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can make your own personal site and form for placing orders. Traditionally, you have the opportunity to select between the two alternatives, so it all depends on how advanced you are in these things. As a domain reseller, you will sell on behalf of your own brand and not under the Registrar's.

Earn Money From Promoting Web Space Hosting Packages As Well

An adequate addition to your domain name reseller business would be to sell web hosting solutions too. Thereby, you can offer a package deal to individuals who want to establish their web site and require both a domain and a site hosting package. A number of firms furnish such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for instance, you can purchase a Virtual Server or a dedicated server, and they will also give you a domain reseller account and free-of-charge billing management software to bill your customers. You can then sell TLDs and shared website hosting accounts to customers, and since they offer many diverse domain name extensions, you will be able to offer domain name and hosting services to people from all over the world.