Domain name reseller

The Internet is an ever-flourishing community that delivers new possibilities to make cash on the Web. One of these opportunities is to be a domain name reseller and offer domain names to end users, making profit from the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of each domain name. Thousands of domains are registered every day, and there are 1 000 000's of currently active domains, so this is a flowering business niche that you can become engaged in.

Top-Level and Second-Level Domains

A domain name contains 2 entities - a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). If we pick domain.com, for instance, ".com" is the TLD and "domain" is the second-level domain name.

Generic and Country-Code Top-Level Domains

The Top-Level Domains can be generic or country code. The generic TLDs comprise the most famous domain name extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the country-code top-level domain names consist of 2-character abbreviations that denote 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 or a country-code TLD, has a Registry - an organization that deals with the registrations and sets the requirements that each specific Top-Level Domain may contain, among them the length of the registration term or the residency of the registrant. Certain Registrar firms work under the Registry. These are the firms that in fact offer the domain name to clients and handle all DNS resource records.

Gain Profit From Trading Domain Names

Plenty of Registrars have reseller programs that allow individuals to gain profit from offering domains to end customers. If you sign up for such a program, you can begin your very own personal Internet business. Normally, a domain name will be cheaper if it is registered via a reseller rather than if it is bought straight from the Registrar by an end client. The explanation is that resellers can reach more clients in provinces or countries where the Registrar may not be known at all. This implies more sales for the Registrar, so both sides will earn a profit from that. Your revenue will be the difference between the price that the client pays and the one that the Registrar charges for the domain registration.

Sell Domain Names Under Your Very Own Personal Brand

When you subscribe to a domain reseller program, you will receive a web hosting Control Panel where you can settle the prices for the separate Top-Level Domains that the Registrar provides. Most corporations also provide billing transaction software and web page skins for your virtual store, and the automation of the whole process together with the increasing demand for domains make the domain name reseller market niche so attractive. You will either have a pre-developed web site and use the Registrar system to sell domains, or they will grant you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can make your own web site and order form. Commonly, you have the opportunity to select between the 2 possibilities, so it all depends on how skilled you are in these issues. As a domain name reseller, you will operate on behalf of your very own brand name and not under the Registrar's brand.

Earn Profit From Selling Hosting Accounts As Well

A nice addition to your domain reseller business would be to sell web hosting plans as well. Thereby, you can give a package deal to persons who desire to manage their site and need both a domain and a web hosting package. Certain corporations supply such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for instance, you can order a Virtual Dedicated Server or a dedicated server, and they will also offer you a domain name reseller account and free billing transaction software to charge your clients. You can then sell TLDs and shared web hosting plans to clients, and since they provide lots of diverse domain name extensions, you will be able to offer domain name and hosting services to users from all around the world.