Domain name reseller

The World Wide Web is an ever-enlarging community that furnishes new possibilities to earn money on the Internet. One of these ways is to be a domain reseller and offer domains to end users, generating revenue from the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of each and every domain name. 1000's of domains are registered each and every day, and there are millions of presently active domains, so this is a flourishing business niche that you can become engaged in.

TLDs and SLDs

A domain includes two pieces - a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). If we pick domain.com, for instance, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain and "domain" is the SLD.

gTLDs and ccTLDs

The Top-Level Domains can be generic or country code. The generic TLDs include the most conventional domain extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, whereas the country-code top-level domain names are composed of 2-character abbreviations that correspond to each country. Examples of country-code TLDs are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each top-level domain name, whether it is a generic TLD or a country-code TLD, has a Registry - an organization that manages the registrations and sets the preconditions that each specific top-level domain name may involve, like the duration of the registration period or the citizenship of the registrant. Certain Registrar corporations work under the Registry. These are the firms that actually offer the domain name to customers and handle all domain records.

Make Profit From Offering Domain Names

Multiple Registrars have reseller programs that enable individuals to make profit from selling domains to end users. If you sign up for such a program, you can build your own Internet business. Typically, a domain will cost less if it is registered via a reseller rather than if it is bought straight from the Registrar by an end client. The cause is that resellers can contact more users in local communities or countries where the Registrar may not be popular whatsoever. This means more sales for the Registrar, so both parties will capitalize on that. Your profit will be the difference between the price that the customer pays and the one that the Registrar charges for the domain name registration.

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

When you register with a domain name reseller program, you will have a website hosting Control Panel where you can determine the prices for the separate TLDs that the Registrar offers. Most companies also provide billing management software and themes for your virtual store, and the automation of the whole process coupled with the considerable demand for domains render the domain reseller market niche so seductive. You will either obtain a ready-for-use website and use the Registrar system to resell domains, or they will grant you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can create your own personal online portal and form for placing orders. Normally, you have the option to decide between the 2 options, so it all depends on how practiced you are in these issues. As a domain name reseller, you will do business on behalf of your personal brand name and not under the Registrar's.

Make Profit From Providing Web Space Hosting Packages Too

A perfect supplement to your domain reseller business would be to sell web hosting packages as well. Thereby, you can offer a package deal to people who desire to launch their web portal and require both a domain name and a web page hosting account. A number of firms have such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for instance, you can have a Virtual Dedicated Server or a dedicated server, and they will also offer you a domain name reseller account and cost-free invoice software to bill your clients. You can then offer domain names and shared hosting packages to customers, and since they provide lots of diverse domain extensions, you will be able to offer domain name and hosting services to persons from all over the world.