Domain name reseller

The Internet is an ever-enlarging community that provides new options to earn money on the Web. One of these options is to become a domain name reseller and sell domain names to end users, making profit from the difference between the wholesale and the retail cost of each and every domain name. Thousands of domains are registered each day, and there are millions of presently functioning domain names, so this is an enlarging trading niche that you can be engaged in.

Top-Level and Second-Level Domains

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

gTLDs and ccTLDs

The Top-Level Domains can be generic or country code. The generic Top-Level Domains include the most widespread domain name extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the country-code top-level domain names comprise 2-character abbreviations that symbolize each country. Examples of country-code Top-Level Domains are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each TLD, whether it is a generic top-level domain name or a country-code Top-Level Domain, has a Registry - an organization that manages the registrations and sets the preconditions that each given Top-Level Domain may entail, among them the length of the registration term or the residency of the registrant. Certain Registrar firms operate under the Registry. These are the companies that in fact sell the domain name to customers and handle all DNS records.

Earn Profit From Selling Domain Names

Numerous Registrars have reseller programs that enable people to make profit from offering domains to end customers. If you register with such a program, you can build your very own personal Internet business. Generally, a domain name will be cheaper if it is registered through a reseller rather than if it is bought directly from the Registrar by an end user. The cause is that resellers can reach more clients in regional districts or countries where the Registrar may not be famous at all. This implies 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 client pays and the one that the Registrar imposes for the domain name registration.

Sell Top-Level Domain Names On Behalf Of Your Own Brand Name

When you register with a domain reseller program, you will have a website hosting Control Panel where you can fix the prices for the specific TLDs that the Registrar offers. Most companies also provide invoicing transaction software and web design templates for your online store, and the automation of the entire procedure coupled with the significant demand for domains render the domain name reseller business niche so seductive. You will either have a turn-key website and make use of the Registrar platform to sell domains, or they will give you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can make your own personal web site and form for placing orders. Usually, you have the opportunity to pick between the 2 possibilities, so it all revolves around how experienced you are in these issues. As a domain reseller, you will sell on behalf of your own personal trademark name and not on behalf of the Registrar's.

Earn Cash From Selling Web Hosting Plans Too

A proper supplement to your domain name reseller business would be to sell web hosting services too. Thus, you can give a package deal to people who wish to develop their web site and need both a domain and a hosting plan. Given corporations offer such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for example, you can run a Virtual Server or a dedicated server, and they will also give you a domain reseller account and cost-free invoice transaction software to charge your customers. You can then sell Top-Level Domains and shared hosting plans to customers, and since they offer plenty of diverse domain name extensions, you will be able to provide domain and hosting services to people from all over the globe.