Domain reseller

The Internet is an ever-growing community that provides new opportunities to make money on the Internet. One of these opportunities is to be a domain reseller and offer domains to end users, gaining revenue from the difference between the wholesale and the retail cost of each domain name. 1000's of domains are registered each day, and there are millions of presently functioning domain names, so this is a flourishing business niche that you can become engaged in.

Top-Level and Second-Level Domains

A domain is composed of two components - a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). If we pick domain.com, for example, ".com" is the TLD and "domain" is the second-level domain name.

gTLDs and ccTLDs

The Top-Level Domains can be generic or country code. The gTLDs comprise the most common domain extensions like .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, whereas the ccTLDs contain two-letter abbreviations that stand for each country. Examples of country-code TLDs are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each Top-Level Domain, whether it is a gTLD or a country-code TLD, has a Registry - an organization that tackles the registrations and sets the preconditions that each given Top-Level Domain may have, like the duration of the registration term or the citizenship of the registrant. A number of Registrar firms operate under the Registry. These are the firms that in fact sell the domain name to clients and administer all DNS records.

Make Revenue From Reselling Domains

Plenty of Registrars have reseller programs that allow people to make money from offering domain names to end customers. If you sign up for such a program, you can begin your own electronic business. Typically, a domain name will cost less if it is registered via a reseller rather than if it is purchased directly from the Registrar by an end customer. The cause is that resellers can reach more customers in local districts or states where the Registrar may not be known at all. This means more sales for the Registrar, so both sides will benefit from that. Your profit will be the difference between the price that the user pays and the one that the Registrar charges for the domain registration.

Sell Domain Names On Behalf Of Your Own Personal Brand Name

When you register with a domain reseller program, you will receive a CP where you can choose the prices for the separate Top-Level Domains that the Registrar offers. Most firms also provide billing software and design templates for your online storefront, and the automation of the whole process coupled with the growing demand for domains render the domain name reseller business niche so tempting. You will either have a pre-made web site and avail of the Registrar system to resell domain names, or they will offer you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can set up your own personal web portal and order form. Typically, you have the option to decide between the two alternatives, so it all depends on how skillful you are in these things. As a domain reseller, you will operate on behalf of your own personal trademark name and not under the Registrar's brand.

Earn Cash From Trading Web Page Hosting Accounts Too

An adequate addition to your domain name reseller business would be to sell web hosting services as well. Thereby, you can give a package deal to people who wish to manage their web page and need both a domain and a web hosting plan. Particular firms furnish such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for example, you can have a Virtual Private Server or a dedicated server, and they will also offer you a domain name reseller account and free-of-charge invoicing transaction software to bill your clients. You can then sell top-level domain names and shared website hosting accounts to customers, and since they provide many different domain extensions, you will be able to provide domain and hosting services to users from all over the globe.