Domain reseller

The World Wide Web is an ever-increasing platform that offers new ways to gain cash on the Web. One of them is to become a domain name reseller and sell domains to end users, earning revenue from the difference between the wholesale and the retail cost of each and every domain name. Thousands of domain names are registered each and every day, and there are 1 000 000's of presently functioning domain names, so this is an enlarging marketing niche that you can be engaged in.

TLDs and SLDs

A domain name includes 2 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 name 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 Top-Level Domains comprise the most widespread domain extensions like .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, whereas the country-code top-level domain names consist of 2-character abbreviations that correspond to each country. Instances of ccTLDs are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each TLD, whether it is a generic or a ccTLD, has a Registry - an organization that administers the registrations and determines the prerequisites that each particular top-level domain name may impose, among them the duration of the registration period or the residency of the registrant. A number of Registrar companies operate under the Registry. These are the firms that actually offer the domain name to customers and manage all domain resource records.

Earn Cash From Reselling Domains

Numerous Registrars have reseller programs that permit individuals to gain cash from selling domain names to end customers. If you sign up for such a program, you can set up your very own electronic business. Usually, a domain will cost less if it is registered via a reseller rather than if it is bought directly from the Registrar by an end client. The explanation is that resellers can contact more persons in local regions or states where the Registrar may not be popular at all. This means more sales for the Registrar, so both sides will make a profit from that. Your profit will be the difference between the price that the client pays and the one that the Registrar requires for the domain registration.

Resell TLDs Under Your Personal Trademark Name

When you sign up for a domain name reseller program, you will get a site hosting Control Panel where you can determine the prices for the separate top-level domain names that the Registrar provides. Most corporations also provide invoicing software and themes for your virtual shop, and the automation of the entire process combined with the huge demand for domains render the domain reseller business so seductive. You will either get a ready-made web site and avail of the Registrar system to resell domains, or they will give you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can make your very own personal web page and form for placing orders. Generally, you have the opportunity to choose between the 2 possibilities, so it all depends on how advanced you are in these issues. As a domain reseller, you will operate on behalf of your very own brand and not under the Registrar's brand.

Earn Revenue From Selling Hosting Accounts Too

An adequate supplement to your domain name reseller business would be to sell web hosting packages too. In this way, you can give a package deal to people who want to set up their web site and need both a domain name and a web page hosting package. Certain corporations supply such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for instance, you can manage a VPS or a dedicated server, and they will also give you a domain reseller account and free billing software to bill your customers. You can then sell domains and shared website hosting accounts to clients, and since they provide lots of different domain extensions, you will be able to offer domain and hosting services to people from all around the globe.