Domain reseller

The Internet is an ever-growing community that supplies new possibilities to gain money on the Web. One of these ways is to be a domain reseller and sell domains to end clients, generating profit from the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of each and every domain name. 1000's of domains are registered each day, and there are 1 000 000's of currently active domains, so this is a growing trading niche that you can be a part of.

Top-Level and Second-Level Domains

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

gTLDs and ccTLDs

The TLDs can be generic or country code. The generic TLDs include the most famous domain name extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, whereas the country-code top-level domain names are composed of 2-letter abbreviations that represent each country. Instances of ccTLDs are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each TLD, whether it is a gTLD or a country-code TLD, has a Registry - an institution that handles the registrations and determines the requirements that each specific top-level domain name may include, among them the length of the registration period or the citizenship of the registrant. A number of Registrar companies operate under the Registry. These are the corporations that in fact offer the domain name to clients and administer all DNS records.

Earn Money From Selling Domains

Plenty of Registrars have reseller programs that enable people to make revenue from selling domain names to end clients. If you subscribe to such a program, you can build your very own web business. Usually, a domain name will be cheaper if it is registered through a reseller rather than if it is obtained straight from the Registrar by an end user. The explanation is that resellers can contact more customers in regional communities or states where the Registrar may not be famous whatsoever. This implies more sales for the Registrar, so both parties will cash in on that. Your profit will be the difference between the price that the user pays and the one that the Registrar levies for the domain registration.

Offer Domains On Behalf Of Your Personal Brand

When you subscribe to a domain reseller program, you will have a hosting CP where you can fix the prices for the separate TLDs that the Registrar provides. Most firms also offer invoice transaction software and design skins for your online store, and the automation of the entire process combined with the increasing demand for domains render the domain reseller business so seductive. You will either acquire a ready-to-use web site and make use of the Registrar system to sell domains, or they will grant you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can create your own personal web page and order form. Usually, you have the opportunity to select between the 2 alternatives, so it all depends on how experienced you are in these matters. As a domain reseller, you will operate under your very own personal brand name and not under the Registrar's brand.

Make Profit From Supplying Website Hosting Solutions Too

A good supplement to your domain name reseller business would be to sell web hosting solutions too. Thereby, you can give a package deal to users who wish to have their online portal and demand both a domain name and a web space hosting package. A few corporations have such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for instance, you can order a Virtual Server or a dedicated server, and they will also offer you a domain name reseller account and free invoice transaction software to charge your customers. You can then offer TLDs and shared website hosting plans to clients, and since they offer plenty of diverse domain extensions, you will be able to provide domain and hosting services to persons from all over the world.