Domain name reseller

The Internet is an ever-increasing community that delivers new possibilities to gain money online. One of these possibilities is to become a domain name reseller and offer domain names to end customers, making profit from the difference between the wholesale and the retail cost of each domain name. Thousands of domains are registered every day, and there are millions of currently active domains, so this is a growing trading niche that you can be a part of.

TLDs and SLDs

A domain is composed of 2 components - 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 name.

Generic and Country-Code TLDs

The Top-Level Domains can be generic or country code. The generic Top-Level Domains comprise the most common domain name extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, whereas the country-code TLDs consist of two-letter abbreviations that symbolize each country. Instances of country-code top-level domain names are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each TLD, whether it is a generic Top-Level Domain or a country-code one, has a Registry - an institution that handles the registrations and determines the requirements that each particular top-level domain name may have, such as the length of the registration term or the residency of the registrant. Certain Registrar firms operate under the Registry. These are the firms that actually sell the domain name to customers and manage all DNS resource records.

Earn Cash From Trading Domain Names

A lot of Registrars have reseller programs that enable people to make cash from selling domain names to end users. If you subscribe to such a program, you can kick off your own web business. Commonly, a domain will be more inexpensive if it is registered through a reseller rather than if it is purchased straight from the Registrar by an end user. The explanation is that resellers can reach more users in local communities or countries where the Registrar may not be popular at all. This means more sales for the Registrar, so both parties will make a profit from that. Your revenue will be the difference between the price that the customer pays and the one that the Registrar levies for the domain name registration.

Sell TLDs On Behalf Of Your Own Personal Brand Name

When you sign up for a domain reseller program, you will receive a web page hosting CP where you can fix the prices for the various top-level domain names that the Registrar provides. Most companies also provide invoicing software and web layouts for your virtual storefront, and the automation of the entire process combined with the high demand for domain names make the domain reseller market niche so tempting. You will either obtain a pre-developed site and utilize the Registrar platform to resell domains, or they will give you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can build your own web site and order form. Traditionally, you have the option to pick between the two possibilities, so it all revolves around how skillful you are in these issues. As a domain reseller, you will sell under your very own personal brand and not on behalf of the Registrar's brand.

Gain Cash From Trading Web Space Hosting Packages Too

A sensible addition to your domain reseller business would be to sell web hosting plans too. Thereby, you can give a package deal to users who wish to have their online portal and demand both a domain and a website hosting plan. A few firms provide such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for instance, you can manage a VPS or a dedicated server, and they will also offer you a domain name reseller account and cost-free billing software to charge your clients. You can then offer top-level domain names and shared web hosting plans to customers, and since they offer many diverse domain extensions, you will be able to offer domain and hosting services to people from all around the world.