Domain name reseller

The Internet is an ever-increasing network that supplies new opportunities to earn money online. One of these ways is to become a domain reseller and offer domain names to end clients, generating revenue from the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of each and every domain name. 1000's of domain names are registered every day, and there are 1 000 000's of currently active domain names, so this is an expanding business niche that you can become engaged in.

Top-Level and Second-Level Domains Names

A domain involves two entities - a top-level domain name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). If we pick domain.com, for example, ".com" is the top-level domain name and "domain" is the Second-Level Domain.

gTLDs and ccTLDs

The top-level domain names can be generic or country code. The generic top-level domain names include the best known domain name extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, whereas the country-code top-level domain names involve 2-letter abbreviations that correspond to each country. Instances of country-code TLDs are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each Top-Level Domain, whether it is a generic TLD or a country-code Top-Level Domain, has a Registry - an organization that handles the registrations and determines the requirements that each specific top-level domain name may include, including the length of the registration period or the residency of the registrant. Certain Registrar firms work under the Registry. These are the firms that actually offer the domain name to customers and administer all domain resource records.

Gain Money From Reselling Domains

Lots of Registrars have reseller programs that enable people to make profit from offering domain names to end clients. If you subscribe to such a program, you can initiate your very own personal Internet 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 user. The explanation is that resellers can contact more users in provinces or states where the Registrar may not be famous whatsoever. This implies more sales for the Registrar, so both parties will capitalize on that. Your profit will be the difference between the price that the client pays and the one that the Registrar imposes for the domain name registration.

Trade Top-Level Domains Under Your Very Own Trademark Name

When you subscribe to a domain reseller program, you will receive a web site hosting CP where you can select the prices for the separate Top-Level Domains that the Registrar provides. Most corporations also provide invoice transaction software and site skins for your web shop, and the automation of the entire process combined with the big demand for domains make the domain name reseller business so alluring. You will either receive a ready-to-use web site and make use of the Registrar platform to resell domains, or they will grant you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can create your very own personal web site and form for placing orders. Generally, you have the option to decide between the two options, so it all depends on how accomplished you are in these affairs. As a domain name reseller, you will work under your very own brand name and not under the Registrar's brand.

Earn Money From Selling Web Hosting Accounts Too

An excellent addition to your domain name reseller business would be to sell web hosting packages too. Thus, you can give a package deal to individuals who would like to create their web site and require both a domain name and a web site hosting plan. Particular companies furnish such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for instance, you can order a Virtual Dedicated Server or a dedicated server, and they will also give you a domain name reseller account and free invoicing software to charge your customers. You can then offer Top-Level Domains and shared web hosting plans to clients, and since they provide a lot of diverse domain extensions, you will be able to provide domain name and hosting services to users from all over the globe.