Domain name reseller

The World Wide Web is an ever-growing platform that generates new opportunities to earn money on the Internet. One of these ways is to become a domain name reseller and sell domain names to end customers, earning revenue from the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of each domain name. Thousands of domains are registered each and every day, and there are 1 000 000's of currently active domains, so this is a thriving trading niche that you can be a part of.

Top-Level and Second-Level Domains

A domain name consists of two parts - a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). If we take domain.com, for instance, ".com" is the top-level domain name and "domain" is the Second-Level Domain.

gTLDs and ccTLDs

The Top-Level Domains can be generic or country code. The generic Top-Level Domains include the most common domain extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the ccTLDs comprise 2-character abbreviations that stand for each country. Instances of country-code top-level domain names are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each Top-Level Domain, whether it is a generic or a country-code TLD, has a Registry - an institution that deals with the registrations and determines the preconditions that each concrete Top-Level Domain may involve, including the length of the registration period or the citizenship of the registrant. A number of Registrar firms operate under the Registry. These are the companies that in fact offer the domain name to customers and handle all domain resource records.

Gain Money From Offering Domains

Numerous Registrars have reseller programs that enable individuals to earn revenue from selling domains to end users. If you register with such a program, you can establish your very own personal e-business. Generally, a domain will be cheaper if it is registered via a reseller rather than if it is obtained straight from the Registrar by an end customer. The reason is that resellers can contact more users in local districts or states where the Registrar may not be known whatsoever. 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 requires for the domain name registration.

Trade Top-Level Domains On Behalf Of Your Very Own Brand

When you sign up for a domain name reseller program, you will receive a site hosting Control Panel where you can fix the prices for the various TLDs that the Registrar provides. Most companies also provide invoice software and web templates for your online store, and the automation of the entire process together with the towering demand for domain names make the domain reseller business niche so alluring. You will either obtain a turn-key website and make use of the Registrar platform to sell domain names, or they will grant you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can make your own personal website and order form. Traditionally, you have the option to pick between the two alternatives, so it all revolves around how experienced you are in these issues. As a domain name reseller, you will work under your very own personal brand name and not on behalf of the Registrar's brand.

Earn Money From Selling Web Space Hosting Accounts Too

A reasonable addition to your domain name reseller business would be to sell web hosting plans too. In this way, you can give a package deal to users who want to have their web page and need both a domain and a webspace hosting account. Given companies have such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for example, you can run a Virtual Server or a dedicated server, and they will also give you a domain name reseller account and free-of-charge invoice software to charge your customers. You can then offer domains and shared hosting packages to clients, and since they offer lots of different domain name extensions, you will be able to offer domain and hosting services to users from all around the world.