Domain name reseller

The World Wide Web is an ever-expanding community that delivers new ways to gain money on the Internet. One of these ways is to become a domain reseller and offer domains to end customers, making revenue from the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of each and every domain name. Thousands of domains are registered each and every day, and there are millions of currently functioning domains, so this is a growing marketing niche that you can be involved in.

TLDs and SLDs

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

Generic and Country-Code Top-Level Domains

The top-level domain names can be generic or country code. The generic TLDs comprise the most conventional domain name extensions like .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, whereas the country-code TLDs consist of 2-letter abbreviations that symbolize each country. Instances of country-code top-level domain names 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 deals with the registrations and determines the requirements that each concrete top-level domain name may include, including the length of the registration term or the residency of the registrant. Certain Registrar corporations work under the Registry. These are the firms that in fact offer the domain name to clients and manage all domain records.

Gain Money From Reselling Domains

Lots of Registrars have reseller programs that allow individuals to make profit from selling domain names to end clients. If you subscribe to such a program, you can set up your very own personal Internet business. Generally, a domain will be cheaper if it is registered via a reseller rather than if it is bought straight from the Registrar by an end customer. The reason is that resellers can contact more people in provinces or states where the Registrar may not be known at all. This means more sales for the Registrar, so both sides will earn 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 name registration.

Resell TLDs On Behalf Of Your Own Brand Name

When you subscribe to a domain name reseller program, you will obtain a webspace hosting CP where you can determine the prices for the specific Top-Level Domains that the Registrar provides. Most firms also offer billing transaction software and web skins for your online shop, and the automation of the entire procedure coupled with the immense demand for domain names make the domain reseller business so alluring. You will either get a pre-developed web site and avail of the Registrar system to sell domains, or they will grant you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can create your very own website and form for placing orders. Generally, you have the opportunity to decide between the two possibilities, so it all depends on how skillful you are in these matters. As a domain name reseller, you will sell on behalf of your own personal brand and not on behalf of the Registrar's brand.

Earn Profit From Supplying Web Site Hosting Services As Well

A logical addition to your domain name reseller business would be to sell web hosting packages too. Thereby, you can give a package deal to users who want to develop their web site and require both a domain name and a hosting account. Some corporations provide such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for example, you can purchase a Virtual Dedicated Server or a dedicated server, and they will also give you a domain name reseller account and free-of-cost invoicing software to charge your clients. You can then offer TLDs and shared website hosting plans to clients, and since they offer many different domain extensions, you will be able to provide domain name and hosting services to clients from all over the world.