Domain reseller

The World Wide Web is an ever-flourishing platform that generates new ways to make money online. One of these options is to become a domain reseller and offer domain names to end customers, gaining revenue from the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of each domain name. Thousands of domain names are registered every day, and there are millions of currently active domain names, so this is a blooming trading niche that you can be involved in.

TLDs and SLDs

A domain name includes two parts - a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). If we take domain.com, for instance, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain and "domain" is the Second-Level Domain.

gTLDs and ccTLDs

The top-level domain names can be generic or country code. The generic top-level domain names comprise the most famous domain name extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, whereas the ccTLDs involve 2-letter abbreviations that signify each country. Examples of country-code top-level domain names are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each TLD, whether it is a generic or a country-code Top-Level Domain, has a Registry - an institution that deals with the registrations and sets the preconditions that each given TLD may involve, like the length of the registration period or the citizenship of the registrant. Certain Registrar firms work under the Registry. These are the firms that in fact offer the domain name to clients and manage all domain name resource records.

Earn Profit From Reselling Domain Names

Numerous Registrars have reseller programs that permit people to make money from offering domain names to end users. If you subscribe to such a program, you can initiate your very own Internet business. Normally, a domain will be cheaper if it is registered through a reseller rather than if it is bought straight from the Registrar by an end customer. The explanation is that resellers can contact more clients in local regions or countries where the Registrar may not be popular whatsoever. This implies more sales for the Registrar, so both parties will profit from that. Your profit will be the difference between the price that the customer pays and the one that the Registrar levies for the domain name registration.

Offer Top-Level Domain Names Under Your Personal Trademark Name

When you register with a domain reseller program, you will acquire a web site hosting Control Panel where you can fix the prices for the specific Top-Level Domains that the Registrar offers. Most corporations also provide billing transaction software and skins for your online shop, and the automation of the whole procedure combined with the large demand for domain names render the domain reseller business so attractive. You will either acquire a ready-for-use web site and use the Registrar system to sell domain names, or they will grant you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can build your own personal website and form for placing orders. Generally, you have the opportunity to decide between the 2 possibilities, so it all revolves around how skillful you are in these issues. As a domain name reseller, you will do business under your personal brand name and not on behalf of the Registrar's brand.

Gain Profit From Supplying Web Hosting Services Too

A nice addition to your domain name reseller business would be to sell web hosting packages as well. Thus, you can give a package deal to clients who wish to make their site and demand both a domain name and a website hosting plan. Certain corporations furnish such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for instance, you can run a Virtual Server or a dedicated server, and they will also give you a domain name reseller account and free invoice transaction software to bill your customers. You can then offer top-level domain names and shared hosting accounts to clients, and since they provide plenty of diverse domain extensions, you will be able to offer domain name and hosting services to clients from all over the globe.