Domain reseller

The Internet is an ever-increasing system that supplies new ways to make cash on the Internet. One of them is to be a domain reseller and sell domains to end customers, generating revenue from the difference between the wholesale and the retail cost of each domain name. 1000's of domain names are registered each and every day, and there are 1 000 000's of presently active domains, so this is a developing trading niche that you can become involved in.

TLDs and SLDs

A domain is made of 2 entities - a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). If we pick domain.com, for instance, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain and "domain" is the second-level domain name.

Generic and Country-Code TLDs

The TLDs can be generic or country code. The generic TLDs include the most common domain name extensions like .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the ccTLDs involve two-letter abbreviations that represent each country. Examples of country-code Top-Level Domains are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each TLD, whether it is a generic or a country-code top-level domain name, has a Registry - an institution that is responsible for the registrations and sets the prerequisites that each concrete top-level domain name may have, such as the length of the registration term or the residency of the registrant. A number of Registrar corporations work under the Registry. These are the corporations that in fact offer the domain name to clients and administer all domain resource records.

Earn Revenue From Trading Domains

Lots of Registrars have reseller programs that enable people to make cash from offering domain names to end users. If you sign up for such a program, you can kick off your very own personal e-business. Usually, a domain name will be cheaper if it is registered through a reseller rather than if it is bought directly from the Registrar by an end customer. The reason is that resellers can contact more clients in local districts or countries where the Registrar may not be popular at all. This implies more sales for the Registrar, so both sides will capitalize on that. Your profit will be the difference between the price that the user pays and the one that the Registrar charges for the domain registration.

Trade Domains Under Your Personal Brand

When you subscribe to a domain reseller program, you will get a webspace hosting Control Panel where you can fix the prices for the specific Top-Level Domains that the Registrar offers. Most corporations also provide invoicing software and web site layouts for your web shop, and the automation of the whole process coupled with the swelling demand for domains render the domain reseller business niche so desirable. You will either receive a pre-developed site and use the Registrar system to resell domains, or they will offer you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can make your very own personal site and order form. Usually, you have the option to choose between the two possibilities, so it all depends on how experienced you are in these matters. As a domain name reseller, you will work under your very own trademark name and not under the Registrar's.

Earn Money From Supplying Website Hosting Packages As Well

A logical addition to your domain reseller business would be to sell web hosting services as well. In this way, you can offer a package deal to clients who desire to manage their web page and demand both a domain name and a webspace hosting plan. Some firms provide such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for instance, you can buy a Virtual Dedicated Server or a dedicated server, and they will also offer you a domain reseller account and free-of-charge billing software to charge your customers. You can then offer Top-Level Domains and shared web hosting plans to customers, and since they offer lots of different domain name extensions, you will be able to provide domain name and hosting services to clients from all over the world.