Domain name reseller

The Internet is an ever-flourishing network that furnishes new possibilities to earn cash on the Internet. One of these ways is to become a domain reseller and sell domains to end clients, making profit from the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of each and every domain name. 1000's of domain names are registered each day, and there are 1 000 000's of currently active domains, so this is a developing trading niche that you can become a part of.

Top-Level and Second-Level Domains

A domain name includes two pieces - a top-level domain name (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 Domains

The Top-Level Domains can be generic or country code. The gTLDs comprise the best known domain name extensions like .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the country-code TLDs consist of two-letter abbreviations that correspond to each country. Instances of country-code Top-Level Domains 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 institution that administers the registrations and sets the requirements that each concrete Top-Level Domain may impose, among them the length of the registration period or the citizenship of the registrant. A number of Registrar firms operate under the Registry. These are the firms that actually offer the domain name to clients and manage all domain name resource records.

Gain Money From Offering Domains

Multiple Registrars have reseller programs that permit people to gain revenue from offering domain names to end clients. If you register with such a program, you can initiate your own web business. Generally, a domain name will cost less if it is registered via a reseller rather than if it is bought straight from the Registrar by an end customer. The cause is that resellers can contact more people in local regions or countries where the Registrar may not be known whatsoever. This means more sales for the Registrar, so both sides will earn a profit from that. Your profit will be the difference between the price that the customer pays and the one that the Registrar levies for the domain registration.

Resell TLDs Under Your Own Trademark Name

When you register with a domain name reseller program, you will have a web hosting Control Panel where you can fix the prices for the various TLDs that the Registrar provides. Most corporations also offer invoice management software and design skins for your virtual shop, and the automation of the entire procedure together with the big demand for domain names render the domain reseller market niche so attractive. You will either acquire a turn-key website and use the Registrar system to sell domains, or they will offer you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can make your own personal website and order form. Usually, you have the option to pick between the 2 alternatives, so it all depends on how skillful you are in these things. As a domain reseller, you will do business on behalf of your personal trademark name and not on behalf of the Registrar's.

Gain Profit From Trading Web Space Hosting Plans Too

A nice addition to your domain name reseller business would be to sell web hosting solutions too. In this way, you can offer a package deal to persons who would like to establish their site and require both a domain and a webspace hosting account. A number of corporations offer such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for instance, you can have a Virtual Private Server or a dedicated server, and they will also give you a domain reseller account and cost-free billing management software to bill your customers. You can then offer domain names and shared web hosting plans to customers, and since they provide plenty of diverse domain name extensions, you will be able to offer domain name and hosting services to individuals from all over the world.