Domain reseller

The World Wide Web is an ever-growing network that offers new opportunities to earn money online. One of them is to become a domain name reseller and sell domain names to end users, making revenue from the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of each and every domain name. Thousands of domains are registered each day, and there are millions of currently functioning domains, so this is a blooming business niche that you can be involved in.

Top-Level and Second-Level Domains

A domain name includes two constituents - a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). If we take domain.com, for instance, ".com" is the top-level domain name and "domain" is the SLD.

Generic and Country-Code Top-Level Domain Names

The Top-Level Domains can be generic or country code. The generic top-level domain names comprise the most conventional domain name extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the ccTLDs involve two-character abbreviations that stand for 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 TLD, has a Registry - an institution that handles the registrations and sets the requirements that each given top-level domain name may entail, including the length of the registration term or the residency of the registrant. Certain Registrar companies work under the Registry. These are the corporations that in fact sell the domain name to clients and administer all DNS resource records.

Earn Cash From Selling Domain Names

Lots of Registrars have reseller programs that permit people to make money from selling domains to end clients. If you register with such a program, you can start your own online business. Typically, a domain name will be cheaper if it is registered through a reseller rather than if it is obtained directly from the Registrar by an end customer. The reason is that resellers can reach more customers in regions or states where the Registrar may not be known whatsoever. This implies more sales for the Registrar, so both parties will take advantage of that. Your profit will be the difference between the price that the user pays and the one that the Registrar charges for the domain name registration.

Trade TLDs Under Your Very Own Personal Brand Name

When you sign up for a domain reseller program, you will get a site hosting Control Panel where you can determine the prices for the different top-level domain names that the Registrar offers. Most firms also offer billing software and web site skins for your web shop, and the automation of the whole process combined with the enlarging demand for domains make the domain reseller market niche so attractive. You will either receive a turn-key website and use the Registrar system to sell domain names, or they will grant you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can build your very own web page and form for placing orders. Normally, you have the opportunity to choose between the 2 possibilities, so it all depends on how advanced you are in these affairs. As a domain name reseller, you will operate under your personal brand and not on behalf of the Registrar's brand.

Gain Revenue From Promoting Web Site Hosting Packages Too

A logical addition to your domain reseller business would be to sell web hosting accounts too. Thereby, you can offer a package deal to users who wish to run their web site and demand both a domain name and a web hosting package. Some companies supply such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for example, you can purchase a VPS 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 domain names and shared web hosting accounts to clients, and since they provide lots of diverse domain name extensions, you will be able to provide domain and hosting services to persons from all around the globe.