Domain reseller

The Internet is an ever-flourishing system that delivers new possibilities to earn money online. One of these options is to be a domain reseller and sell domain names to end customers, generating revenue from the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of each domain name. Thousands of domain names are registered each and every day, and there are 1 000 000's of presently active domain names, so this is a flourishing business niche that you can be involved in.

TLDs and SLDs

A domain is composed of two components - 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 SLD.

Generic and Country-Code TLDs

The Top-Level Domains can be generic or country code. The gTLDs include the most famous domain extensions like .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, whereas the country-code top-level domain names include two-character abbreviations that stand for each country. Examples of country-code TLDs are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each TLD, whether it is a generic or a country-code one, has a Registry - an institution that administers the registrations and determines the preconditions that each specific top-level domain name may impose, like the duration of the registration period or the residency of the registrant. Certain Registrar companies work under the Registry. These are the companies that in fact offer the domain name to clients and manage all domain name records.

Earn Revenue From Trading Domain Names

A lot of Registrars have reseller programs that enable individuals to gain money from selling domains to end clients. If you sign up for such a program, you can launch your own personal e-business. Typically, a domain name will cost less if it is registered through a reseller rather than if it is bought straight from the Registrar by an end client. The explanation is that resellers can reach more persons in local communities or countries where the Registrar may not be famous whatsoever. This means more sales for the Registrar, so both sides will benefit from that. Your profit will be the difference between the price that the user pays and the one that the Registrar requires for the domain name registration.

Resell Top-Level Domain Names On Behalf Of Your Personal Brand

When you sign up for a domain name reseller program, you will have a Control Panel where you can choose the prices for the separate Top-Level Domains that the Registrar provides. Most firms also provide billing software and web site themes for your web shop, and the automation of the entire process together with the high demand for domain names make the domain reseller business niche so tempting. You will either have a pre-built web site and make use of the Registrar system to sell domains, or they will give you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can create your own personal web page and form for placing orders. Usually, you have the opportunity to select between the two possibilities, so it all depends on how advanced you are in these matters. As a domain name reseller, you will sell on behalf of your own personal trademark name and not on behalf of the Registrar's brand.

Gain Profit From Providing Web Space Hosting Solutions Too

A suitable addition to your domain name reseller business would be to sell web hosting solutions too. Thereby, you can give a package deal to customers who wish to run their web portal and demand both a domain and a web hosting account. A number of corporations offer such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for instance, you can manage a Virtual Dedicated Server or a dedicated server, and they will also give you a domain name reseller account and free-of-charge invoice transaction software to bill your clients. You can then offer Top-Level Domains and shared web hosting packages to customers, and since they provide plenty of different domain name extensions, you will be able to offer domain and hosting services to people from all over the globe.