Domain name reseller

The World Wide Web is an ever-growing community that offers new opportunities to earn cash on the Internet. One of these ways is to become a domain name reseller and offer domains to end clients, earning profit 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 1 000 000's of currently functioning domain names, so this is a growing business niche that you can become involved in.

Top-Level and Second-Level Domains Names

A domain name is made of 2 components - a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). If we take domain.com, for instance, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain and "domain" is the Second-Level Domain.

Generic and Country-Code Top-Level Domain Names

The top-level domain names can be generic or country code. The generic top-level domain names include the most famous domain extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the country-code Top-Level Domains comprise 2-letter abbreviations that correspond to each country. Instances of ccTLDs are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each TLD, whether it is a generic or a country-code one, has a Registry - an institution that manages the registrations and sets the preconditions that each particular TLD may include, among them the duration of the registration period or the residency of the registrant. Certain Registrar corporations work under the Registry. These are the firms that actually sell the domain name to customers and handle all domain records.

Gain Revenue From Reselling Domain Names

Multiple Registrars have reseller programs that enable people to gain money from selling domains to end clients. If you sign up for such a program, you can initiate your own web business. Usually, a domain name will cost less if it is registered through a reseller rather than if it is bought straight from the Registrar by an end client. The reason is that resellers can reach more users in regional communities or countries where the Registrar may not be known whatsoever. This means more sales for the Registrar, so both parties will make 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.

Sell TLDs 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 select the prices for the specific Top-Level Domains that the Registrar offers. Most companies also offer billing management software and web page skins for your virtual store, and the automation of the whole process together with the enormous demand for domains render the domain reseller market niche so seductive. You will either receive a pre-built site and avail of the Registrar system to resell domain names, or they will give you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can create your very own web portal and form for placing orders. Generally, you have the option to select between the two alternatives, so it all revolves around how expert you are in these affairs. As a domain reseller, you will work on behalf of your own trademark name and not under the Registrar's brand.

Make Revenue From Providing Web Site Hosting Accounts As Well

An adequate addition to your domain name reseller business would be to sell web hosting packages too. Thereby, you can give a package deal to people who desire to make their web page and require both a domain name and a web site hosting account. A few companies offer such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for example, you can have a Virtual Server or a dedicated server, and they will also offer you a domain reseller account and cost-free billing transaction software to charge your clients. You can then offer top-level domain names and shared web hosting accounts to customers, and since they offer many different domain extensions, you will be able to offer domain name and hosting services to users from all over the globe.