Domain reseller

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

TLDs and SLDs

A domain consists of two components - 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 TLDs

The top-level domain names can be generic or country code. The gTLDs include the best known domain extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the country-code Top-Level Domains are made of 2-character abbreviations that signify each country. Instances of ccTLDs are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each top-level domain name, whether it is a generic top-level domain name or a country-code TLD, has a Registry - an organization that deals with the registrations and determines the preconditions that each concrete top-level domain name may impose, like the duration of the registration period or the citizenship of the registrant. A number of Registrar companies operate under the Registry. These are the firms that actually offer the domain name to customers and manage all DNS records.

Earn Cash From Offering Domains

Lots of Registrars have reseller programs that permit people to earn profit from selling domain names to end customers. If you subscribe to such a program, you can kickstart your very own personal e-business. Usually, a domain name will be cheaper if it is registered through a reseller rather than if it is obtained directly from the Registrar by an end user. The explanation is that resellers can reach more persons in regional communities or states where the Registrar may not be famous 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 customer pays and the one that the Registrar imposes for the domain name registration.

Resell Domains On Behalf Of Your Very Own Personal Brand

When you register with a domain reseller program, you will get a web site hosting Control Panel where you can fix the prices for the specific top-level domain names that the Registrar provides. Most companies also offer invoice transaction software and web page themes for your online store, and the automation of the entire procedure together with the growing demand for domain names make the domain name reseller market niche so desirable. You will either acquire a ready-to-use website and make use of the Registrar platform to resell domain names, or they will offer you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can make your own personal portal and form for placing orders. Generally, you have the option to pick between the two options, so it all depends on how advanced you are in these issues. As a domain name reseller, you will work on behalf of your own brand and not under the Registrar's brand.

Earn Revenue From Promoting Web Site Hosting Solutions As Well

A proper supplement to your domain name reseller business would be to sell web hosting plans too. Thus, you can give a package deal to customers who desire to set up their website and require both a domain name and a web page hosting package. A few companies furnish such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for example, you can purchase 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 offer TLDs and shared hosting plans to clients, and since they offer plenty of diverse domain extensions, you will be able to offer domain name and hosting services to customers from all around the world.