Domain reseller

The Internet is an ever-flourishing community that offers new options to gain money on the Internet. One of them is to become a domain reseller and offer domain names to end clients, generating profit from the difference between the wholesale and the retail cost of each domain name. Thousands of domain names are registered every day, and there are 1 000 000's of currently active domains, so this is a growing business niche that you can become engaged in.

TLDs and SLDs

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

Generic and Country-Code Top-Level Domain Names

The Top-Level Domains can be generic or country code. The generic top-level domain names include the most widely used domain name extensions like .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, whereas the country-code TLDs are made of two-letter abbreviations that represent each country. Examples of ccTLDs are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each Top-Level Domain, whether it is a gTLD or a country-code one, has a Registry - an organization that administers the registrations and determines the requirements that each specific Top-Level Domain may entail, such as the length of the registration term or the residency of the registrant. Certain Registrar companies operate under the Registry. These are the companies that in fact sell the domain name to customers and administer all domain name records.

Gain Revenue From Offering Domains

Many Registrars have reseller programs that permit people to make cash from offering domains to end clients. If you sign up for such a program, you can kick off your own web business. Normally, a domain will be more inexpensive if it is registered via a reseller rather than if it is purchased directly from the Registrar by an end user. The cause is that resellers can contact more clients in local regions or states where the Registrar may not be known at all. This means more sales for the Registrar, so both parties 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 requires for the domain registration.

Trade TLDs On Behalf Of Your Personal Brand Name

When you sign up for a domain reseller program, you will have a web hosting CP where you can determine the prices for the individual top-level domain names that the Registrar offers. Most companies also offer billing management software and site templates for your web storefront, and the automation of the whole process coupled with the considerable demand for domain names render the domain name reseller market niche so seductive. You will either receive a ready-to-use web site and use the Registrar system to sell domain names, or they will give you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can create your very own site and order form. Normally, you have the opportunity to select between the two alternatives, so it all revolves around how experienced you are in these issues. As a domain name reseller, you will operate on behalf of your personal brand and not under the Registrar's.

Earn Profit From Supplying Site Hosting Services Too

A good addition to your domain name reseller business would be to sell web hosting accounts too. Thereby, you can give a package deal to users who desire to have their web portal and demand both a domain and a web page hosting plan. A few firms have such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for instance, you can purchase a VPS or a dedicated server, and they will also offer you a domain name reseller account and cost-free billing management software to charge your customers. You can then offer domain names and shared web hosting packages to clients, and since they provide plenty of diverse domain extensions, you will be able to offer domain name and hosting services to people from all around the world.