Domain name reseller

The World Wide Web is an ever-growing network that supplies new possibilities to make cash on the Web. One of these options is to be a domain reseller and offer domain names to end users, earning profit from the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of each and every domain name. Thousands of domain names are registered each and every day, and there are 1 000 000's of presently active domains, so this is an increasing marketing niche that you can be a part of.

TLDs and SLDs

A domain name is made of two pieces - a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). If we take domain.com, for instance, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain 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 comprise the most famous domain extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the ccTLDs involve two-letter abbreviations that signify each country. Examples of country-code top-level domain names are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each TLD, whether it is a gTLD or a country-code one, has a Registry - an organization that is responsible for the registrations and determines the prerequisites that each particular TLD may include, among them the duration of the registration period or the residency of the registrant. A number of Registrar firms work under the Registry. These are the corporations that in fact offer the domain name to clients and administer all domain records.

Make Profit From Offering Domains

Lots of Registrars have reseller programs that enable individuals to gain money from selling domain names to end users. If you sign up for such a program, you can build your own personal electronic business. Regularly, a domain will be more inexpensive if it is registered via a reseller rather than if it is purchased straight from the Registrar by an end user. The reason is that resellers can reach more persons in local communities or countries where the Registrar may not be popular whatsoever. This means more sales for the Registrar, so both parties will make a profit from that. Your profit will be the difference between the price that the customer pays and the one that the Registrar charges for the domain name registration.

Trade Domain Names Under Your Very Own Personal Brand

When you register with a domain reseller program, you will receive a web space hosting Control Panel where you can settle the prices for the different Top-Level Domains that the Registrar provides. Most companies also offer billing management software and web design themes for your virtual storefront, and the automation of the entire procedure together with the proliferating demand for domain names make the domain reseller industry so attractive. You will either get a pre-developed website and use the Registrar platform to resell domains, or they will offer you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can set up your very own portal and order form. Traditionally, you have the option to pick between the two options, so it all depends on how advanced you are in these issues. As a domain name reseller, you will do business on behalf of your own personal brand name and not under the Registrar's brand.

Earn Money From Offering Website Hosting Plans As Well

A relevant addition to your domain reseller business would be to sell web hosting packages too. In this way, you can give a package deal to people who wish to build their site and demand both a domain name and a web space hosting plan. Given firms have such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for instance, you can buy a VPS or a dedicated server, and they will also offer you a domain reseller account and free-of-charge billing software to bill your customers. You can then offer Top-Level Domains and shared web hosting packages to clients, and since they provide plenty of diverse domain name extensions, you will be able to offer domain name and hosting services to users from all around the world.