Domain reseller

The Internet is an ever-enlarging community that furnishes new ways to earn cash online. One of them is to become a domain reseller and sell 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 each day, and there are millions of currently functioning domains, so this is a flowering business niche that you can become engaged in.

Top-Level and Second-Level Domains

A domain name is composed of two entities - a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). If we take domain.com, for example, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain and "domain" is the SLD.

Generic and Country-Code Top-Level Domains

The Top-Level Domains can be generic or country code. The generic TLDs comprise the best known domain name extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, whereas the country-code TLDs are made of 2-letter abbreviations that represent each country. Instances of country-code top-level domain names are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each TLD, whether it is a generic TLD or a country-code one, has a Registry - an organization that administers the registrations and sets the prerequisites that each given TLD may impose, 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 actually offer the domain name to customers and manage all domain name records.

Gain Profit From Selling Domains

Lots of Registrars have reseller programs that permit people to gain revenue from offering domain names to end users. If you register with such a program, you can launch your very own personal e-business. Normally, a domain will be cheaper if it is registered through a reseller rather than if it is bought straight from the Registrar by an end customer. The cause is that resellers can reach more customers in local districts or states where the Registrar may not be popular whatsoever. This means more sales for the Registrar, so both sides will profit from that. Your revenue will be the difference between the price that the client pays and the one that the Registrar requires for the domain name registration.

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

When you sign up for a domain reseller program, you will have a web hosting Control Panel where you can select the prices for the separate Top-Level Domains that the Registrar offers. Most companies also provide invoice management software and web design templates for your online shop, and the automation of the entire process combined with the large demand for domain names render the domain name reseller market so tempting. You will either acquire a turn-key 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 own personal web page and form for placing orders. Commonly, you have the opportunity to choose between the two possibilities, so it all revolves around how advanced you are in these issues. As a domain name reseller, you will work on behalf of your personal brand and not on behalf of the Registrar's.

Earn Money From Selling Site Hosting Services Too

A nice supplement to your domain reseller business would be to sell web hosting services too. Thus, you can give a package deal to users who would like to make their online portal and demand both a domain and a site hosting plan. A few companies supply such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for example, you can purchase a VPS or a dedicated server, and they will also offer you a domain reseller account and charge-free invoice transaction software to bill your customers. You can then offer top-level domain names and shared hosting plans to clients, and since they offer many different domain name extensions, you will be able to provide domain name and hosting services to users from all around the world.