Domain reseller

The World Wide Web is an ever-growing network that offers new options to gain cash online. One of these opportunities is to be a domain name reseller and offer domains to end clients, earning profit from the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of each domain name. 1000's of domains are registered every day, and there are 1 000 000's of presently active domains, so this is a developing business niche that you can become a part of.

Top-Level and Second-Level Domains Names

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

gTLDs and ccTLDs

The top-level domain names can be generic or country code. The generic Top-Level Domains comprise the most conventional domain extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the country-code top-level domain names consist of two-character abbreviations that symbolize each country. Instances of ccTLDs are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each Top-Level Domain, whether it is a generic or a ccTLD, has a Registry - an institution that handles the registrations and sets the prerequisites that each specific TLD may have, among them the length of the registration period or the residency of the registrant. A number of Registrar corporations work under the Registry. These are the corporations that in fact sell the domain name to clients and administer all domain name resource records.

Earn Revenue From Offering Domain Names

Many Registrars have reseller programs that allow individuals to make money from selling domain names to end customers. If you sign up for such a program, you can initiate your own online business. As a rule, a domain will be cheaper if it is registered via a reseller rather than if it is purchased straight from the Registrar by an end customer. The explanation is that resellers can contact more clients in local communities or countries where the Registrar may not be popular at all. This means more sales for the Registrar, so both sides will capitalize on that. Your revenue will be the difference between the price that the customer pays and the one that the Registrar requires for the domain registration.

Trade Top-Level Domains Under Your Very Own Brand Name

When you subscribe to a domain name reseller program, you will have a web site hosting CP where you can select the prices for the various Top-Level Domains that the Registrar offers. Most corporations also provide invoice management software and site skins for your virtual storefront, and the automation of the whole procedure coupled with the considerable demand for domain names make the domain reseller business niche so seductive. You will either have a ready-to-use site and make use of the Registrar platform to sell domain names, or they will offer you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can make your own personal online portal and form for placing orders. Generally, you have the opportunity to decide between the two options, so it all depends on how practiced you are in these matters. As a domain name reseller, you will operate under your own trademark name and not under the Registrar's brand.

Gain Profit From Reselling Web Page Hosting Services Too

An excellent addition to your domain reseller business would be to sell web hosting services as well. Thereby, you can offer a package deal to clients who desire to create their web site and require both a domain and a web space hosting package. A number of companies provide such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for example, you can buy a VPS or a dedicated server, and they will also give you a domain reseller account and free invoice software to charge your customers. You can then sell top-level domain names and shared website hosting accounts to clients, and since they offer a lot of different domain name extensions, you will be able to provide domain and hosting services to persons from all over the globe.