Domain reseller

The World Wide Web is an ever-growing network that offers new possibilities to gain money on the Web. One of these opportunities is to be a domain name reseller and offer domains to end users, gaining revenue 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 blooming trading niche that you can be involved in.

TLDs and SLDs

A domain name consists of 2 pieces - a top-level domain name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). If we take domain.com, for example, ".com" is the TLD and "domain" is the SLD.

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 conventional domain name extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the country-code top-level domain names contain 2-character abbreviations that denote each country. Instances of ccTLDs are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each Top-Level Domain, whether it is a generic Top-Level Domain or a country-code one, has a Registry - an institution that administers the registrations and sets the prerequisites that each specific Top-Level Domain may contain, such as the length of the registration term or the residency of the registrant. A number of Registrar companies work under the Registry. These are the corporations that actually sell the domain name to customers and administer all DNS resource records.

Earn Revenue From Selling Domains

Plenty of Registrars have reseller programs that enable people to make profit from offering domain names to end clients. If you register with such a program, you can kick off your own e-business. Commonly, a domain will cost less if it is registered through a reseller rather than if it is obtained directly from the Registrar by an end user. The reason is that resellers can contact more users in local communities or countries where the Registrar may not be famous whatsoever. This implies more sales for the Registrar, so both parties will capitalize on that. Your revenue will be the difference between the price that the user pays and the one that the Registrar charges for the domain name registration.

Trade Domains Under Your Very Own Personal Brand

When you subscribe to a domain reseller program, you will receive a webspace hosting CP where you can settle the prices for the different top-level domain names that the Registrar offers. Most firms also offer invoice transaction software and website skins for your virtual store, and the automation of the whole procedure together with the proliferating demand for domain names make the domain name reseller business so alluring. You will either obtain a pre-built web site and use the Registrar platform to sell domains, or they will give you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can build your very own site and form for placing orders. Generally, you have the option to decide between the 2 options, so it all depends on how practiced you are in these matters. As a domain reseller, you will operate on behalf of your own brand and not under the Registrar's brand.

Earn Profit From Promoting Site Hosting Packages As Well

A reasonable supplement to your domain name reseller business would be to sell web hosting solutions as well. Thereby, you can give a package deal to users who wish to develop their online portal and demand both a domain name and a web hosting account. A number of companies supply such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for instance, you can run a Virtual Server or a dedicated server, and they will also offer you a domain name reseller account and free-of-charge invoicing software to charge your customers. You can then sell top-level domain names and shared web hosting accounts to customers, and since they offer many diverse domain name extensions, you will be able to offer domain and hosting services to people from all around the world.