Domain reseller

The Internet is an ever-flourishing platform that provides new possibilities to earn cash on the Web. One of these ways is to become a domain reseller and offer domain names to end customers, making profit from the difference between the wholesale and the retail cost of each domain name. 1000's of domains are registered each day, and there are millions of presently active domain names, so this is a thriving marketing niche that you can become engaged in.

Top-Level and Second-Level Domains

A domain name is composed of two pieces - 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 Domain Names

The Top-Level Domains can be generic or country code. The generic Top-Level Domains comprise the most conventional domain extensions like .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, whereas the country-code top-level domain names involve 2-character abbreviations that correspond to each country. Examples of country-code Top-Level Domains are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each Top-Level Domain, whether it is a generic TLD or a country-code one, has a Registry - an institution that administers the registrations and determines the preconditions that each particular Top-Level Domain may involve, including the duration of the registration period or the citizenship of the registrant. Certain Registrar companies work under the Registry. These are the corporations that actually offer the domain name to clients and handle all DNS resource records.

Gain Profit From Selling Domains

Many Registrars have reseller programs that allow people to gain profit from selling domains to end users. If you subscribe to such a program, you can build your very own personal Internet business. Generally, a domain will be cheaper if it is registered via a reseller rather than if it is bought straight from the Registrar by an end client. The reason is that resellers can contact more users in regional districts or states where the Registrar may not be famous at all. This implies more sales for the Registrar, so both sides will cash in on that. Your revenue will be the difference between the price that the client pays and the one that the Registrar imposes for the domain name registration.

Sell TLDs Under Your Very Own Brand Name

When you register with a domain reseller program, you will obtain a web site hosting Control Panel where you can settle the prices for the different Top-Level Domains that the Registrar provides. Most companies also offer invoice management software and web themes for your virtual storefront, and the automation of the whole process together with the swelling demand for domain names make the domain name reseller market so seductive. You will either have a turn-key web site and avail of the Registrar platform to sell domain names, or they will grant you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can build your very own web site and order form. Normally, you have the option to select between the 2 possibilities, so it all revolves around how accomplished you are in these things. As a domain name reseller, you will sell on behalf of your very own brand name and not on behalf of the Registrar's.

Make Revenue From Promoting Hosting Plans Too

A logical supplement to your domain name reseller business would be to sell web hosting packages too. Thereby, you can give a package deal to customers who want to build their web page and require both a domain and a website hosting package. A number of corporations furnish such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for example, you can run a Virtual Private Server or a dedicated server, and they will also give you a domain name reseller account and free invoicing software to bill your clients. You can then offer domain names and shared web hosting plans to clients, and since they offer a lot of different domain name extensions, you will be able to provide domain name and hosting services to users from all over the globe.