Domain reseller

The Internet is an ever-growing network that offers new options to earn money online. One of them is to be a domain reseller and sell domains to end clients, gaining revenue from the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of each and every domain name. 1000's of domains are registered every day, and there are millions of currently functioning domains, so this is a flourishing marketing niche that you can be engaged in.

TLDs and SLDs

A domain is made of two pieces - a Top-Level Domain (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.

Generic and Country-Code Top-Level Domains

The Top-Level Domains can be generic or country code. The generic Top-Level Domains include the most popular domain name extensions like .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the country-code top-level domain names contain 2-character abbreviations that signify each country. Examples of ccTLDs are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each TLD, whether it is a generic top-level domain name or a country-code top-level domain name, has a Registry - an organization that is responsible for the registrations and sets the requirements that each particular TLD may impose, among them the length of the registration term or the citizenship of the registrant. A number of Registrar firms operate under the Registry. These are the firms that in fact sell the domain name to customers and handle all DNS resource records.

Make Money From Reselling Domain Names

Multiple Registrars have reseller programs that allow people to make money from selling domain names to end users. If you sign up for such a program, you can build your very own web business. Normally, a domain name will be more inexpensive if it is registered via a reseller rather than if it is purchased straight from the Registrar by an end customer. The reason is that resellers can contact more individuals in regional communities or countries where the Registrar may not be known whatsoever. This implies more sales for the Registrar, so both parties will capitalize on that. Your profit will be the difference between the price that the customer pays and the one that the Registrar requires for the domain name registration.

Offer Domain Names On Behalf Of Your Personal Trademark Name

When you subscribe to a domain name reseller program, you will have a hosting CP where you can settle the prices for the separate TLDs that the Registrar provides. Most companies also provide invoice management software and website themes for your virtual store, and the automation of the whole procedure together with the big demand for domains make the domain reseller market niche so alluring. You will either acquire a ready-to-use web site and use the Registrar system to resell domain names, or they will offer you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can build your own personal web page and form for placing orders. Typically, you have the opportunity to select between the 2 alternatives, so it all revolves around how trained you are in these matters. As a domain name reseller, you will sell under your own personal brand name and not under the Registrar's brand.

Make Profit From Selling Webspace Hosting Accounts As Well

A logical supplement to your domain reseller business would be to sell web hosting packages too. In this way, you can offer a package deal to customers who would like to launch their website and demand both a domain and a web page hosting package. Certain companies offer such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for example, you can run a Virtual Server or a dedicated server, and they will also give you a domain reseller account and free invoice management software to charge your clients. You can then offer top-level domain names and shared website hosting accounts to customers, and since they provide a lot of different domain name extensions, you will be able to provide domain and hosting services to people from all over the world.