Domain reseller

The World Wide Web is an ever-flourishing platform that offers new opportunities to make money online. One of these ways is to be a domain reseller and offer domains to end users, making revenue from the difference between the wholesale and the retail cost of each domain name. Thousands of domains are registered each day, and there are 1 000 000's of presently active domains, so this is a flourishing marketing niche that you can become a part of.

TLDs and SLDs

A domain name consists of 2 parts - a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). If we take domain.com, for instance, ".com" is the TLD and "domain" is the SLD.

Generic and Country-Code Top-Level Domain Names

The top-level domain names can be generic or country code. The generic TLDs comprise the most widely used domain name extensions like .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, whereas the country-code Top-Level Domains comprise two-character abbreviations that represent 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 TLD, has a Registry - an organization that is responsible for the registrations and determines the requirements that each given top-level domain name may impose, like the length of the registration period or the residency of the registrant. A number of Registrar companies operate under the Registry. These are the companies that in fact sell the domain name to customers and manage all domain name resource records.

Gain Profit From Trading Domain Names

A lot of Registrars have reseller programs that allow individuals to earn revenue from offering domains to end users. If you register with such a program, you can build your own personal e-business. As a rule, a domain name will be more inexpensive if it is registered through a reseller rather than if it is obtained straight from the Registrar by an end user. The cause is that resellers can contact more persons in regions or countries where the Registrar may not be popular whatsoever. This means more sales for the Registrar, so both parties will profit from that. Your profit will be the difference between the price that the user pays and the one that the Registrar levies for the domain registration.

Trade Domains On Behalf Of Your Personal Trademark Name

When you subscribe to a domain name reseller program, you will receive a website hosting Control Panel where you can set the prices for the different top-level domain names that the Registrar offers. Most corporations also offer invoicing software and design templates for your online storefront, and the automation of the entire process together with the enlarging demand for domains make the domain name reseller market niche so desirable. You will either receive a ready-to-use site and make use of the Registrar platform to sell domains, or they will offer you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can set up your own personal web site and order form. Commonly, you have the option to choose between the two possibilities, so it all revolves around how advanced you are in these affairs. As a domain name reseller, you will operate under your own personal brand and not under the Registrar's brand.

Make Money From Selling Website Hosting Packages As Well

A sensible addition to your domain reseller business would be to sell web hosting services too. Thereby, you can offer a package deal to individuals who would like to manage their site and demand both a domain and a web space hosting plan. A few companies offer such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for instance, you can run a Virtual Dedicated Server or a dedicated server, and they will also give you a domain name reseller account and cost-free billing management software to bill your clients. You can then sell TLDs and shared web hosting accounts to clients, and since they provide many diverse domain name extensions, you will be able to offer domain and hosting services to customers from all over the world.