Domain reseller

The Internet is an ever-increasing community that offers new ways to gain money online. One of these possibilities is to be a domain reseller and sell domains to end clients, gaining profit from the difference between the wholesale and the retail cost of each domain name. 1000's of domain names are registered each day, and there are 1 000 000's of currently functioning domains, so this is a developing trading niche that you can be involved in.

TLDs and SLDs

A domain name is made of 2 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 and "domain" is the second-level domain name.

gTLDs and ccTLDs

The TLDs can be generic or country code. The generic Top-Level Domains include the best known domain name extensions like .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the ccTLDs consist of 2-letter abbreviations that stand for each country. Examples of country-code TLDs are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each top-level domain name, whether it is a gTLD or a country-code one, has a Registry - an organization that administers the registrations and sets the requirements that each concrete Top-Level Domain may have, among them the duration of the registration term or the citizenship of the registrant. A number of Registrar firms work under the Registry. These are the corporations that actually offer the domain name to clients and administer all DNS records.

Earn Money From Trading Domains

Multiple Registrars have reseller programs that permit individuals to gain revenue from offering domain names to end clients. If you subscribe to such a program, you can establish your own e-business. Typically, a domain name will be cheaper if it is registered through a reseller rather than if it is obtained straight from the Registrar by an end customer. The explanation is that resellers can contact more clients in provinces 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 revenue will be the difference between the price that the customer pays and the one that the Registrar charges for the domain registration.

Trade Domains Under Your Very Own Personal Trademark Name

When you register with a domain name reseller program, you will have a web page hosting CP where you can determine the prices for the various Top-Level Domains that the Registrar provides. Most corporations also offer invoice software and site layouts for your virtual store, and the automation of the entire process together with the high demand for domain names make the domain name reseller market niche so desirable. You will either obtain a ready-to-use web site and utilize the Registrar system to sell domain names, or they will offer you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can build your very own personal site and order form. Usually, you have the option to choose between the two options, so it all depends on how skillful you are in these things. As a domain reseller, you will work on behalf of your very own brand name and not on behalf of the Registrar's brand.

Earn Revenue From Trading Site Hosting Accounts Too

A reasonable supplement to your domain name reseller business would be to sell web hosting packages too. In this way, you can offer a package deal to persons who want to develop their web site and demand both a domain and a website hosting account. Some corporations offer such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for example, you can purchase a Virtual Server or a dedicated server, and they will also give you a domain name reseller account and free-of-charge billing management software to charge your clients. You can then sell domains and shared web hosting packages to clients, and since they offer lots of diverse domain name extensions, you will be able to offer domain name and hosting services to clients from all over the world.