Domain reseller

The Internet is an ever-increasing platform that furnishes new possibilities to earn cash on the Internet. One of these ways is to become a domain reseller and offer domains to end users, gaining revenue from the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of each domain name. Thousands of domains 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 be engaged in.

Top-Level and Second-Level Domains

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

gTLDs and ccTLDs

The TLDs can be generic or country code. The generic TLDs comprise the most common domain name extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the country-code Top-Level Domains are made of 2-character abbreviations that represent each country. Examples of ccTLDs are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each Top-Level Domain, whether it is a generic Top-Level Domain or a country-code TLD, has a Registry - an organization that tackles the registrations and sets the requirements that each given Top-Level Domain may involve, including the duration of the registration period or the residency of the registrant. A number of Registrar corporations operate under the Registry. These are the corporations that in fact sell the domain name to clients and manage all domain name resource records.

Gain Revenue From Reselling Domain Names

Numerous Registrars have reseller programs that allow individuals to earn money from selling domains to end customers. If you sign up for such a program, you can kickstart your very own personal Internet business. Usually, a domain name will cost less if it is registered via a reseller rather than if it is obtained directly from the Registrar by an end customer. The reason is that resellers can contact more persons in local regions or countries where the Registrar may not be popular whatsoever. This means more sales for the Registrar, so both sides will take advantage of that. Your revenue will be the difference between the price that the customer pays and the one that the Registrar requires for the domain registration.

Trade Domains Under Your Personal Trademark Name

When you subscribe to a domain name reseller program, you will acquire a website hosting Control Panel where you can set the prices for the various TLDs that the Registrar offers. Most companies also provide invoicing software and templates for your online store, and the automation of the entire process combined with the enlarging demand for domain names render the domain reseller market so alluring. You will either get a pre-developed website and avail of the Registrar platform to resell domains, or they will offer you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can build your own website and order form. Generally, you have the option to select between the two possibilities, so it all depends on how advanced you are in these things. As a domain reseller, you will do business under your very own personal trademark name and not on behalf of the Registrar's brand.

Make Cash From Offering Web Space Hosting Services Too

A good supplement to your domain reseller business would be to sell web hosting services as well. In this way, you can give a package deal to individuals who would like to build their web page and require both a domain and a web site hosting package. Given companies provide such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for example, you can manage a Virtual Private Server or a dedicated server, and they will also give you a domain name reseller account and free-of-cost invoice software to charge your customers. You can then sell TLDs and shared web hosting accounts to customers, and since they provide lots of diverse domain extensions, you will be able to provide domain and hosting services to individuals from all around the world.