Domain reseller

The Internet is an ever-developing community that delivers new opportunities to make money on the Web. One of them is to be a domain reseller and offer domain names to end clients, generating profit from the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of each domain name. Thousands of domain names are registered every day, and there are millions of presently active domain names, so this is a blossoming business niche that you can become a part of.

Top-Level and Second-Level Domains Names

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

gTLDs and ccTLDs

The TLDs can be generic or country code. The generic Top-Level Domains include the best known domain extensions like .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the country-code top-level domain names contain two-character abbreviations that correspond to each country. Examples of ccTLDs are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each top-level domain name, whether it is a generic TLD or a country-code one, has a Registry - an institution that manages the registrations and sets the preconditions that each specific top-level domain name may entail, among them the length of the registration term or the citizenship of the registrant. Certain Registrar companies work under the Registry. These are the firms that actually offer the domain name to customers and handle all domain records.

Make Revenue From Trading Domains

Lots of Registrars have reseller programs that allow individuals to make profit from offering domains to end customers. If you sign up for such a program, you can launch your own web business. Typically, a domain will cost less if it is registered via a reseller rather than if it is purchased straight from the Registrar by an end client. The reason is that resellers can contact more persons in local communities or states where the Registrar may not be popular at all. This means more sales for the Registrar, so both sides will cash in on that. Your profit will be the difference between the price that the user pays and the one that the Registrar charges for the domain name registration.

Trade TLDs On Behalf Of Your Own Personal Trademark Name

When you register with a domain reseller program, you will have a hosting CP where you can choose the prices for the different TLDs that the Registrar provides. Most corporations also offer invoice transaction software and web site layouts for your web storefront, and the automation of the entire procedure coupled with the immense demand for domain names make the domain name reseller industry so seductive. You will either obtain a ready-for-use website and use the Registrar system to sell domain names, or they will offer you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can build your own personal portal and order form. Typically, you have the option to choose between the 2 options, so it all depends on how advanced you are in these things. As a domain reseller, you will sell under your own personal brand name and not under the Registrar's.

Make Profit From Supplying Web Hosting Plans Too

A perfect supplement to your domain name reseller business would be to sell web hosting services too. In this way, you can give a package deal to individuals who would like to build their web site and demand both a domain and a web page hosting plan. Given firms have such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for example, you can run a Virtual Dedicated Server or a dedicated server, and they will also give you a domain reseller account and free invoice transaction software to charge your customers. You can then sell top-level domain names and shared website hosting packages to customers, and since they provide lots of diverse domain extensions, you will be able to provide domain name and hosting services to clients from all around the world.